Wazir Khan of the Tansen family.Maharajah of Maihar, and others.He has left a legacy of thousands of compositions.The elements of Vaishnavism and Sufism are combined in his songs.Lalon Fakir died in 1891.Having born into a family, which was musically inclined, Jnan Ghosh had the privilegde of having training under the tutelage of many eminent exponents like Girija Shankar Chakrabarty, Mohammed Sagir Khan, Mohammed Dabir Khan and Ustad Majid Khan.He died on February 18th, 1997.Alauddin Khan was born in a humble peasant family of Tripura in Eastern India.The Ustad, whose age was estimated variously from a hundred to a hundred and twenty years, spent his whole life in the midst of creativity.The meastro passed away in his house at Maihar on September 6, 1972.He performed in a number of international concerts and thereby sowed the seeds for the wave of popularity of Indian music in the West.Ivory film, The Householder etc.Ali Akbar Khan has been a recipient of several prestigious awards like honorary doctorates from, Viswa Bharati University, California Institute of the Arts, New England Conservatory of Music, University of Delhi, University of Dacca, Rabindra Bharati University.Ravi Shankar had great inclination towards music from his very childhood, and spent his early childhood, singing and playing the harmonium, before he met his guru Baba Alauddin Khan.In 1989, this remarkable musician celebrated his 50th year of concertising.Pandit Nikhil Banerjee was a real phenomenon of recent Indian music.He began learning the sitar at the age of six from his father, but, like Ravi Shankar, he also got much of his training from the great Ustad Alauddin Khan, remaining with him for seven years.His refined style combined the best of all the major schools of sitar playing.Hemanta was born in Benares on June, 1920.In 1934, Hemanta made his first debut in the All India Radio (AIR) with the song Amar gaanete elo nabarupe chirontoni .As his musical genius prompted him to respect and cultivate all kinds of good music, he proved his excellence by scoring and directi...