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استاد محمد حسین سرآهنگ

استاد محمد حسین سرآهنگ در شب براتِ سال ۱۲۹۶ خورشیدی۱ در گذر خواجه خوردک یا خرابات کابل در خانوادۀ استاد غلام حسین خان به دنیا آمد. پدر بزرگش عطا حسین خان نام داشت. پدر بزرگ مادری استاد سرآهنگ، گام الدین معروف به گامو خان و جد او عبدالقادر نام داشت که از موسیقیدانان بزرگ عصر […]

استاد عاشق علی خان

Ustad Ashiq Ali Khan was born to Ustad Fateh Ali, the co-founder of the Patiala Gharana in the later part of the 19th Century. It is said that Ustad Fateh Ali Khan was a very surila gawaiya. He died much before Ustad Ali Bakhsh Khan, the other cofounder of the gharana. Growing up without the supervision of a father, […]

استاد غلام حسین خان

مرگ رنجیت سنگ در ۱۸۳۹ میلادی، حکومت پنجاب را چنان متزلزل ساخت که توانایی حکمرانی بر ولایات شرقی افغانستان را از دست داد. رنجیت سنگ را شیر پنجاب، می‌نامیدند و از مهاراجه های سیک بود که زمان زیادی را در جنگ با مردم سرزمین افغانستان و حوالی آن صرف کرد و موفق شد آنان […]

Ustad Mohammad-Hussain Sarāhang (1917–1983) was a classical ghazal singer and an exponent of Indian classical music from Kabul, Afghanistan. Ustad Sarahang (née Mohammad-Hussain) was born in 1917 in the Kharabat area of Kabul, an old district known for introducing some of the country’s greatest musicians^.He was the second oldest son of the great musician Ustad Ghulam Hussain Khan, founder of contemporary music of Afghanistan, who taught his son the basics of music. Sarahang studied Indian classical music in the Patiala style of singing for 16 years under Ustad Ashiq Ali Khan.

Sarahang returned to Kabul at the age of 29. He typically performed various genres of classical and semi-classical music including raga, khayal, thumri, tarana and ghazal. He usually sang the ghazals of Amir Khusrow and Abul Ma’āni Bedil, famous poets who wrote in Persian, as he was a Bedil Shenās (Bedil Expert).

He wrote two books about classical music, Qānūn-e Tarab (The Law of Music) and Mūssīqī-e Rāg-hā (Music of Ragas). He has also created or composed several ragas including Hazra and Minamanee.

He earned the following titles and degrees from various music conferences and schools of India:

Honorary Degrees of Master, Doctor and Professor of Music from Kalakendra School of Music, Kolkuta
Title of Sangeet Sameru “Koh-e Beland” (High Mountain of Music) from Chandigarh college of Music, Chandigarh
Title of “Sar Taj-e Musiqee” (Top Crown of Music) from Central School of Music, 1971, Allahabad
Title of “Baba-e Musiqee Patiala” (The Father of Patiala Style Music) in his final performance of tribute to Ustad Ashiq Ali Khan in New Delhi, 1979
Title of “Sher-e Musiqee” (Lion of Music) in his last performance in Allahabad, 1982

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