Muthuswami Dikshitar (Mudduswamy Dikshitar) son of Ramaswami Dikshitar was a great musician, born in Southern part of India in Tiruvarur near Tanjore/Thanjavur in 1776.
As a child he learnt at home also he heard Chidambaranatha Yogi, an ascetic from Kashi/ Banaras/ Varanasi. Yogi was good musician/singer. Dikshitar started learning from Yogi and moved to Kashi. He lived in #kashi for about 8/9 years learning from Yogi. Naturally he might have learnt what was prevalent in Kashi? and as Yogi was in Madras (Chennai), it indicates traveling/pilgrimage was common in those days. Yogi was musician also-as it is said Music is a path of Bhakti too at feet of Lord. Thus Dikshitar learnt both traditions of #music nowadays termed as #hindustaniclassicalmusic and #carnaticmusic. At Madras he also learnt Western Music. a local zamindar helped.
Dikshitar also went on pilgrimage to various places. He became expert in Veena. He also had experimented with Violin.
He composed kritis and various other songs in praise of Lord. He was scholar of #sanskrit and written songs in Sanskrit. one of the most respected Musician of India and integral part of Trinity of Carnatic Sangeet along with great Tyagraj and Shyama Shastri.
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