1. Mysore Vasudevachar presided over Madras Music Academy's annual conference in 1935, when the Sangeetha Kalanidhi award did not exist.
16 Facts About Mysore Vasudevachar
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Mysore Vasudevachar was a recipient of the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan.
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Mysore Vasudevachar is credited with two writings in Kannada, one of them an autobiography called Nenapugalu and Na Kanda Kalavidaru in which he wrote the biographies of many well known musicians.
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Mysore Vasudevachar taught in Rukmini Devi's Kalakshetra,.
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Mysore Vasudevachar was already quite old by then, but thanks to Rukmini Devi he agreed to shift to Kalakshetra.
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Mysore Vasudevachar lived a simple and austere life devoted to the study of Sanskrit and music.
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Mysore Vasudevachar had composed the music for only the first four kandas and it was left to Rajaram to finish the work.
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Vasudevacharya was born in an orthodox Madhwa Brahmin family in Mysore and started learning music from Veena Padmanabhiah, the chief musician of the Mysore court.
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Mysore Vasudevachar mastered Sanskrit and allied fields such as Kavya, Vyakarana, Nataka, Alankaram, Tarka, Itihasa, Purana having studied at the Maharaja Sanskrit college in Mysore while learning music privately.
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Mysore Vasudevachar then went on to learn from the famous composer-musician Patnam Subramania Iyer supported by the Maharaja's generous stipend and imbibed the music of not only his Guru but other great maestros of the Thanjavur-Cauvery delta.
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Mysore Vasudevachar was known for his madhyama-kala tanam singing which he learnt from his Guru.
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Mysore Vasudevachar was adept in all the aspects of Carnatic music especially Ragam Alapanam, Tanam, Neraval and Kalpanaswaram.
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Mysore Vasudevachar published a large number of his compositions in the book Vasudeva Kirtana Manjari.
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Mysore Vasudevachar's songs reflect his mastery of Sanskrit and show his erudition and scholarship in Sanskrit literature.
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Mysore Vasudevachar considered his insight into Telugu as a gift from Thyagaraja.
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Mysore Vasudevachar's compositions are thus like sugar candy which gives one instant pleasure and yet lingers on in the mind and heart long after.