Tansen Samaroh:
1,300 musicians played Vande Mataram on tabla to enter the Guinness World Record for the “largest table ensemble” during the ongoing 99th International Tansen Samaroh in Gwalior.
- Tansen Samaroh is a tribute to Indian musical legend, Shri Ramtanu Misra, famously known as Tansen.
- It is held every year in December in Gwalior to celebrate Tansen.
- Artists and music lovers from all over the world gather here to pay tribute to the Great Indian Musical Maestro Tansen.
Tansen :
- He was a vocalist, instrumentalist and music composer.
- He is credited as the founder of the Hindustani classical music.
- He was one of the Navratnas (Nine gems) in Emperor Akbar’s court.
- Akbar considered him as a Navaratnas (nine jewels), and gave him the title Mian, an honorific, meaning learned man.
- Tansen is remembered for his epic Dhrupad compositions, creating several new ragas, as well as for writing two classic books on music Sri Ganesh Stotra and Sangita Sara.
