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Maharaja Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma
Music composer
April 16, 1813 December 27, 1846
Fondly remembered with respects on his Birth Anniversary
Anyone who had ever turned an ear to music of the carnatic tradition would certainly have come across the popular kriti Bhavayami raghuramam… the entire Ramayana in a ragamalika. How effortlessly it moves, how imaginatively it swings between actions and bhavas, emotions and suggestions. Perhaps it could be considered as one of the most popular and widely listened to compositions of the maestro of Carnatic Music—Swati Tirunal.
This name is so very well associated with quite a lot of compositions in a variety of languages and moods. Perhaps one can say about Swati Tirunal’s creations: here’s god’s plenty! Needless to say his was a life of devotion and dedication. And the poet in him drew inspiration and guidance from Lord Padmanabha, Vishnu as Anantasayi. As the name itself implies Swati Tirunal came from the far south from the Malayalam speaking territory of Kerala, the erstwhile Thiruvithancore, and later Thiruvananthapuram.—the present day capital of the state.
Here the country itself is God’s own, surrendered by the famed ruler Marthanada Varma to the Lord Padmanabha. The rulers merely ruled with the consent of the Lord. And Swati had a great tradition—a tradition of excellence. But more than anything else Swati Tirunal is remembered today not merely for his excellent and innovative period of rule but more for his great musical contributions—in Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi and Marathi.
https://smuralis.wordpress.com/new/swati-tirunal-1813-1846/
Please Listen to this song
"Kamini Mani Sakhi" of Maharaja Swathi Thirunal sung by the noted Carnatic musician Kalyani Menon & Meera Ram Mohan, in the Malayalam film "SWAPAANAM".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU03UytEOSI
Published on Feb 14, 2014
Music composer
April 16, 1813 December 27, 1846
Fondly remembered with respects on his Birth Anniversary
Anyone who had ever turned an ear to music of the carnatic tradition would certainly have come across the popular kriti Bhavayami raghuramam… the entire Ramayana in a ragamalika. How effortlessly it moves, how imaginatively it swings between actions and bhavas, emotions and suggestions. Perhaps it could be considered as one of the most popular and widely listened to compositions of the maestro of Carnatic Music—Swati Tirunal.
This name is so very well associated with quite a lot of compositions in a variety of languages and moods. Perhaps one can say about Swati Tirunal’s creations: here’s god’s plenty! Needless to say his was a life of devotion and dedication. And the poet in him drew inspiration and guidance from Lord Padmanabha, Vishnu as Anantasayi. As the name itself implies Swati Tirunal came from the far south from the Malayalam speaking territory of Kerala, the erstwhile Thiruvithancore, and later Thiruvananthapuram.—the present day capital of the state.
Here the country itself is God’s own, surrendered by the famed ruler Marthanada Varma to the Lord Padmanabha. The rulers merely ruled with the consent of the Lord. And Swati had a great tradition—a tradition of excellence. But more than anything else Swati Tirunal is remembered today not merely for his excellent and innovative period of rule but more for his great musical contributions—in Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi and Marathi.
https://smuralis.wordpress.com/new/swati-tirunal-1813-1846/
Please Listen to this song
"Kamini Mani Sakhi" of Maharaja Swathi Thirunal sung by the noted Carnatic musician Kalyani Menon & Meera Ram Mohan, in the Malayalam film "SWAPAANAM".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU03UytEOSI
Published on Feb 14, 2014
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