Mysore Venkatesha Doreswamy Iyengar was a Carnatic musician and one of the greatest exponents of the veena in modern Indian history.
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12 Facts About Doraiswamy Iyengar
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Doraiswamy Iyengar was a son of Venkatesha Iyengar, a learned vainika and royal musician at the court of the Princely State of Mysore.
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Doraiswamy Iyengar started learning the veena from his father at an early age and soon became a disciple of Veena Venkatagiriyappa.
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Doraiswamy Iyengar performed in the presence of the then Maharaja of Mysore at the age of 12.
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Doraiswamy Iyengar gave his first public performance in 1943 at the Bangalore Gayana Samaja.
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Doraiswamy Iyengar participated in music conferences including one in Shiraz, Iran, in 1969, where he was invited to perform at the Shiraz Persepolis Festival of Arts.
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Concerts of Doraiswamy Iyengar, accompanied by Mysore T Chowdiah on the violin, became very popular.
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Doraiswamy Iyengar composed songs for a few Kannada films, notably Subbashastri, starring Kalyan Kumar.
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Doraiswamy Iyengar was regularly accompanied on mridangam by V S Rajagopal.
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Doraiswamy Iyengar was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the President of India in 1983, the Sangeetha Kalanidhi of the Madras Music Academy, the Sangeetha Kalasikhamani of the Indian Fine Arts Society, the Sangeetha Kalaratna of the Bangalore Gayana Samaj, and the Chowdiah National Memorial Award.
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