Wahid Khan
{{Short description|Indian musician}}
{{for|the vocalist|Abdul Wahid Khan}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2018}}
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| birth_date = 1895
| birth_place = Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India
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| death_place = Calcutta, India
| nationality = Indian
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| occupation = Sitar & Surbahar player
| awards = Sangeet Natak Akademi Award by the President of India in 1960
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Wahid Khan (born 1895 {{endash}} died ?) was an Indian surbahar and sitar player. He was the son of Imdad Khan and belonged to the Imdadkhani gharana or Etawah gharana of classical music.
Early life
Wahid Khan was born in 1895 at Etawah, Uttar Pradesh.[https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803120334232 Wahid Khan Overview] Oxford Reference website He was still quite young when his father Imdad Khan moved to Kolkata from Etawah with his family. In Kolkata, the family lived in the house of the connoisseur Taraprasad Ghosh, where Imdad Khan trained his sons, Wahid Khan and Enayat Khan, in sitar and surbahar. Wahid Khan specialised in the surbahar while Enayat Khan specialized in sitar."{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/arts/vilayat-khan-76-musician-who-redefined-sitar-playing.html |author=Jon Pareles|date=15 March 2004|title=Vilayat Khan, 76, Musician Who Redefined Sitar Playing -(obituary) |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=27 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710065246/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/arts/vilayat-khan-76-musician-who-redefined-sitar-playing.html|archive-date=10 July 2022|url-status=dead}}
Wahid Khan, at a very young age, was first initiated into Dhrupad, Khayal and Thumri and then trained extensively on the Sitar and Surbahar, by his father Imdad Khan for many years.
Performing career
Imdad Khan, later, moved out of Kolkata to settle in Indore as the court-musician of the Maharaja Holkar of Indore. His sons Enayat Khan and Wahid Khan accompanied him to Indore. There Imdad Khan died in 1920, following which Enayat Khan left Indore and returned to Kolkata, while Wahid Khan was appointed the court musician of the Indore court, where he lived for 18 years on a very high salary. Wahid Khan also served the Patiala court for three years as a court musician. He was also the court musician of the Nizam of Hyderabad.
Wahid Khan was a regular performer at All India Radio. He also performed all over India and received numerous awards and medals from the famous institutions of Tikamgarh, Rewa, Baroda, Mysore, Dhaulpur.
Wahid Khan also appeared in filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s international award-winning film Jalsaghar (The Music Room, 1958) where he performed on the surbahar in one of the scenes.
Personal life
Wahid Khan is the paternal uncle of noted sitar player Vilayat Khan and the surbahar player Imrat Khan.{{cite news |title= No compromises in his art|url= http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2004/03/28/stories/2004032800460500.htm|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20040628134141/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2004/03/28/stories/2004032800460500.htm|url-status= dead|archive-date= 28 June 2004|newspaper= The Hindu newspaper|date= 2004-03-28|access-date=12 March 2024}} His grandson is Shahid Parvez, another noted sitar player. His brother Enayat Khan was also a noted sitar and a surbahar player.
Awards
- Felicitated by the Governor of Bombay.
- First instrumentalist to receive the coveted President's Award (now Sangeet Natak Akademi Award) in 1960.{{cite web|url=http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/awardeeslist.htm#InstrumentalTabla|title=Wahid Khan's award info (scroll down to read under title (Instrumental-Sitar)|website=Sangeet Natak Akademi website|archive-date=4 March 2016|access-date=12 March 2024|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023610/http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/awardeeslist.htm#InstrumentalTabla}}
Discography
Released 78rpm recordings:
- Khamaj (Vilambit Gat-toda) on the Sitar
- Pilu (Drut Gat) on the Sitar
- Bhimpalasi (Alap, Jod-Jhala) on the Surbahar
References
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{{note|Book}} For reference see the book "Hamare Sangeet Ratna" by Laxmi Narayan Garg
{{note|A}} [http://www.sangeetnatak.com/programmes_recognition&honours_music_hindustani_instrumenta.html Sangeet Natak Award Winners]
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Category:Hindustani instrumentalists
Category:Indian male classical musicians