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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 composer and 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 1,082,525 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Tyagaraja is the 773rd most popular composer (up from 970th in 2019), the 346th most popular biography from India (up from 424th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Composer.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Tyagaraja ranks 773 out of 1,216. Before him are Michel Blavet, Johan Helmich Roman, John Bull, Déodat de Séverac, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, and Alexander Alyabyev. After him are Sylvano Bussotti, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Antoine Brumel, Václav Tomášek, Claude Balbastre, and André Caplet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1767, Tyagaraja ranks 35. Before him are Philippe LeBon, Alexis Bouvard, Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Black Hawk, and Jacques Laffitte. After him are Bernhard Romberg, Takizawa Bakin, William Martin, Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles, Pavel Chichagov, and Anouvong. Among people deceased in 1847, Tyagaraja ranks 24. Before him are Thiệu Trị, Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, Alexandre Deschapelles, Ioannis Kolettis, Karl Friedrich Burdach, and Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen. After him are Daniel O'Connell, Josef Jungmann, Alexey Venetsianov, José de Palafox y Melci, 1st Duke of Zaragoza, Friedrich von Gärtner, and Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe.

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In India

Among people born in India, Tyagaraja ranks 346 out of 1,493. Before him are Baji Rao II (1775), Sharad Pawar (1940), Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905), Bhikaiji Cama (1861), Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908), and Sridevi (1963). After him are Rajnath Singh (1951), Kumaragupta I (400), Dara Shukoh (1615), Bhalchandra Nemade (1938), Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931), and Jacques Lauriston (1768).

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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), Kailash Kher (1973), Pritam (1971), and Yo Yo Honey Singh (1983).

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