PANDIT RADHAVALLABH CHATURVEDI
(12-1-1917 : 10-6-1974)

BIOGRAPHY

Pt. Radhavallabh Chaturvedi was a singer and music composer of great reputation. He completed his Sangeet Visharad in 1940 from Bhatkhande Sangeet Mahavidyalaya, Lucknow. He joined All India Radio, Lucknow as a music composer in 1942 and served till 1974. Through his path breaking work in All India Radio, Lucknow he achieved immense success and popularity. He collected folk songs from interiors of rural Uttar Pradesh. He is credited to have collected about 5000 rare folk songs and made notations for each, there lay preserving them for the future generations. Considering the cruel fact that due to the absence of notations, many Indian Languages have lost their treasure of folk songs over the years, Pt. Radhavallabh Chaturvedi became the saviour of folk music of Uttar Pradesh.

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BOOKS BY PANDIT RADHAVALLABH CHATURVEDI

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SA RE GA MA

Pt. Radhavallabh Chaturvedi keeping in mind classical music and its complexity wrote an easily accessible and authentic book Sa Re Ga Ma on the basic principles of classical music so that the book reaches even those people whom he could not reach out to personally. In the book, he has summarized the elements of classical music that make classical music what it is, in easy language and in an effortless manner.

Unchi Atariya Rang Bhari

Panditji’s book Unchi Atariya Rang Bhari has a collection of 106 folk songs of various types including Sariya, Sohar, Mundan, Tona, Jevanar, Vidai, Chakia, Panaghat, Kajri, Jhula, Chaumasa, Chaiti, Rasiya, Devigeet, Dhamar, etc., which are printed along with lyrical intonations and introductions as well as notations. There was a need for classical dexterity to notate the folk songs, and he fulfilled the same.