Surindro Mohun Tagore (Raja Sorindramohan Thakura) ( Beng. শৌরীন্দ্রমোহন ঠাকুর , English Sourindra Mohun Tagore ; 1840 , Calcutta , Bengal Presidency , British India - June 28, 1914 , Calcutta , Bengali Presidency , British India ) - Indian - Bengal scholarship musicologist , musician . Founder and president of the Bengal Academy of Music (1881-1914).
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Selected Works
- 3 See also
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
- 6 References
Biography
Representative of the Tagorov family . He studied the North Indian, then the European theory of music and published a lot on these topics. In 1871 he founded the Bengal Music Society, in 1881 - the Bengal Academy of Music, was its president until the end of his life. Created the first Indian music orchestra in Calcutta.
Improved Indian musical notation ("Elementary rules for the Hindoo musical notation ...", 1875).
On the instructions of a number of museums, he collected collections of musical instruments in different countries of Asia, the best is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( New York ). In 1877, he laid the foundations of the Brussels Museum of Musical Instruments (MIM), when the Raja presented the King of Belgium with Leopold II a collection of one hundred Indian musical instruments [3] .
The author of about 60 works on various issues of North Indian, in particular, Bengali, music (published in Bengali and English in Calcutta).
A convinced supporter of the British Empire and its colonial representations in India, Surindro Mohun Tagore was tasked with translating the hymn “God Save the King / Queen!” To Indian tunes.
In 1875 he received an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Philadelphia and Oxford (1895).
Selected Works
- Hindu music, 1875;
- Yantra Kosha, or A treasury of the musical Instrument! of ancient and modern India ..., 1875;
- The 8 principal Ragas of the Hindus, 1880;
- The musical scales of the Hindus with remarks on the applicability of harmony to Hindu music, 1884;
- Universal history of music, 1896.
See also
- Tagor family
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography / C. Matthew - Oxford : OUP , 2004.
- ↑ International Music Score Library Project - 2006.
- ↑ Brussels Musical Instrument Museum (MIM)
Literature
- Great Russian Encyclopedia
- The Musical Encyclopedia, 1973-1982