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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]

Contents

1 Career
- 1.1 Disciples
2 References
3 External links

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.

References

^ "A name synonymous with the flute". The Hindu (Chennai, India). Oct 11, 2005. http://www.hindu.com/br/2005/10/11/stories/2005101100221500.htm.
^ "My First Break: Pandit Ravi Shankar". The Hindu (Chennai, India). 7 October 2010. http://www.thehindu.com/arts/music/article818170.ece.

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Persondata
Name	Ghosh, Pannalal
Alternative names	Ghosh, Amal Jyoti
Short description	Indian bansuri player
Date of birth	31 July 1911
Place of birth	Kolkata
Date of death	20 April 1960
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