Pannalal Ghosh

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Pannalal Ghosh
Also known as Amal Jyoti Ghosh
Born July 31, 1911(1911-07-31)
Origin Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Died April 20, 1960(1960-04-20) (aged 48)
Genres Hindustani classical music
Occupations flutist
Instruments bansuri

Pannalal Ghosh (31 July 1911 – 20 April 1960), also known as Amal Jyoti Ghosh, was a Bengali Indian flute (bansuri) player and composer. He was a disciple of Allauddin Khan, and is credited with giving the flute its status in Hindustani classical music.[1]

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Career

Pannalal Ghosh jointly scoring the background for “Aandhiyan” in 1952 along with Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit Ravi Shankar.[2] He was the first to introdce the seven hole flute.

Disciples

Authentic list of Pt. Pannalal Ghosh’s noteworthy students at Calcutta contained Haripada Choudhary, Aminur Rehman (MintuDa), Fakirchanda Samanta, Sudhanshu Choudhury, Mukul Roy and Gaur Goswami. The students at Bombay included Tribhuvan Gondkar, Rasbihari Desai, Devendra Murdeshwar, V.G. Karnad, Chandrakant Joshi, Mohan Nadkarni, Prabhakar Nachane, Niranjan Haldipur, Krishnarao D. Desai, Ramaprasad Mukherjee, Mahesh Mastfakir, Sharad Moholay, Bhailal Barot, Suraj Narain Purohit and Hari Chabria.

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