Give the life sketch and contribution of any one of the following Musician: Miyan Tansen, Allaudin Khan, Inayat Khan
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Miyan Tansen : Life sketch and Contribution
Tansen was a sixteenth century Hindustani classical musician and composer to whom a large number of compositions have been attributed in northern regions of the Indian subcontinent. He was also known to be an instrumentalist & the one who popularized and improved musical instruments.
He was one of the most influential personality who used to sung Hindustani Music. He is famous for his one of the compositions , the Dhrupad , through which he created many different Ragas which were a great work to be applauded.
Being the lackage of historical information , his biography is not clear but still it's believed that Tansen was born in 1500 Criest Era.
All the other personal historical facts about Tansen are anonymous due to many reason and the his surroundings he had. When Tansen was a child , he was called as Ramtanu. His father was a very famous poet and musician.
Tansen completed his studies and Arts in Madhya Pradesh. Generally , most of the time he spent were in courts performing his marvellous work in music which was appreciated by all the members in the court. Tansen is known to be one of the nine gems at the court of Akhbar , whose court Tansen joined for the first in 1562.
Tansen's musical art contributed much in the music of the north indian sub continent specially the Dhrupad. Many of his musical works were in the Braj Language which is spoken by the people of Braj & with all these he also composed and performed compositions dedicated to eulogizing kings and emperor Akbar.