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Tyagaraja

1767 - 1847

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Sadguru Tyagaraja Swami (Telugu: సద్గురు త్యాగరాజ స్వామి; 4 May 1767 – 6 January 1847), also known as Tyagayya, and in full as Kakarla Tyagabrahmam, was a saint and composer of Carnatic music, a form of Indian classical music. Tyagaraja and his contemporaries, Shyama Shastri and Muthuswami Dikshitar, are regarded as the Trinity of Carnatic music. Tyagaraja composed thousands of devotional compositions, most in Telugu and in praise of Rama, many of which remain popular today. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tyagaraja has received more than 1,145,486 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Tyagaraja is the 771st most popular composer (up from 772nd in 2019), the 377th most popular biography from India (down from 343rd in 2019) and the most popular Indian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Tyagaraja ranks 771 out of 1,451. Before him are La Monte Young, Temistocle Solera, Ludwig Senfl, Oskar Nedbal, Heinrich Scheidemann, and Egidio Duni. After him are Joseph Weigl, Claudin de Sermisy, Gaetano Pugnani, Felip Pedrell, George Onslow, and Andrzej Panufnik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1767, Tyagaraja ranks 34. Before him are Alexis Bouvard, Platon Zubov, Jacques-Laurent Agasse, John Adams, Philippe LeBon, and Takizawa Bakin. After him are Black Hawk, Anouvong, Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles, Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux, Bashir Shihab II, and Heinrich Schrader. Among people deceased in 1847, Tyagaraja ranks 29. Before him are Alexandre Deschapelles, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, Karl Friedrich Burdach, Marie Antoinette Murat, William Smith, and Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen. After him are Daniel O'Connell, Alexey Venetsianov, Erik Gustaf Geijer, Robert Liston, José Joaquín de Olmedo, and Abbasgulu Bakikhanov.

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In India

Among people born in India, Tyagaraja ranks 377 out of 1,861. Before him are Meena Kumari (1933), Dara Shukoh (1615), K. Shivaram Karanth (1902), Gupta (240), Baba Amte (1914), and M. N. Roy (1887). After him are Bhikaiji Cama (1861), Orde Wingate (1903), Mad Mike Hoare (1919), Rani Padmini (null), The Great Khali (1972), and Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863).

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Among COMPOSERS In India

Among composers born in India, Tyagaraja ranks 1. After him are Zakir Hussain (1951), R. D. Burman (1939), Anu Malik (1960), Bombay Jayashri (1950), Kailash Kher (1973), Aadesh Shrivastava (1964), Pritam (1971), Yo Yo Honey Singh (1983), and Anirudh Ravichander (1990).

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