The First Music school in India is " Gandharva Mahavidyalaya" in Lahore. It was set up by " Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar" on 56th May 1901. Pandit Vishnu Digambar was an Indian classical musician born in Kurundwad Maharashtra.
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Saturday, 21 July 2012
The First Gramophone
The First Gramophone record in India was made in Kolkata in the year 1898. Thomas Edison invented a sound machine which was called Phonograph in 1877. Hemendra Mohan Bose of Kolkata who was an Indian entrepreneur imported the phonograph machine and made the cyolinder gramophone recor5d. Teh recores werte popularly known as Bose's Records. The Gramophone & Typewriter Ltd recorded the first Indian song in their Beliaghata factory in 1898.
First Musician
The first musician to receive the Padma Bhushan was MS Subbulakshmi. She received the Padma Bhusan in the year 1954 and Padma Vibhushan in 1975. She was also the first musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public service in 1974. In 1988 she was conferred the Bharat Ratna.
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