Tyagaraja Quotes

Tyagaraja , also known as Tyāgayya, was a renowned composer of Carnatic music, a form of Indian classical music. He was prolific and highly influential in the development of India's classical music tradition. Tyagaraja and his contemporaries, Shyama Shastri and Muthuswami Dikshitar, were regarded as the Trinity of Carnatic music. Tyagaraja composed thousands of devotional compositions, most in Telugu and in praise of Lord Rama, many of which remain popular today. Of special mention are five of his compositions called the Pancharatna Kritis , which are often sung in programs in his honour.

Tyagaraja saw the reigns of four kings of the Maratha dynasty — Tulaja II , Amarasimha , Serfoji II and Sivaji II , although he served none of them. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. May 1767 – 6. January 1847
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Famous Tyagaraja Quotes

“Wont you draw back the curtain within me,
O Lord Venkataramana of Tirupati, Open up this screen of envy.”

[Jackson, William Joseph, Tyāgarāja and the Renewal of Tradition: Translations and Reflections, http://books.google.com/books?id=CZBnppBQgOsC&pg=PA69, 1 January 1994, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 978-81-208-1146-1, 169–]

“What is the use of sangita (music without bhakti).”

Quoted in "Tyāgarāja and the Renewal of Tradition: Translations and Reflections", page=173

“Whenever I go to south India, I hear the songs of Saint Thyagaraja.”

Mahatma Gandhi quoted in [Bossy, Michel-Andre, Brothers, Thomas, John C., Artists, Writers, and Musicians, http://books.google.com/books?id=r0SOzr_0Ya4C&pg=PA185, 2001, Greenwood Publishing Group, 978-1-57356-154-9, 185]

“With…passionate devotion to the ideals of beauty, harmony, freedom, and aspiration… had the strongest impact on society.”

Dr Radhakrishnan in “Sri Thyagaraja’s life and work have moved multitudes in South India to spiritual ecstasy and noble living", page=169

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