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Encyclopedia > Muthuswami Dikshitar
Indian classical music
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Muttusvami Dikshitar is one of the Carnatic music composer trinity. He has composed lots of wonderful kritis in various rare ragas. His mudra is GuruGuha. He was born in modern-day Karnataka and later moved to modern-day Tamil Nadu. During his final days he was patronised by the King of Ettayapuram.


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Muthuswami Dikshitar trinities of Carnatic music - Classical Singer Muthuswami Dikshitar - Guruguha Muthuswamy ... (541 words)
Muthuswami Dikshitar was the youngest one of the three composers (trinity) of the Carnatic music.
Muthuswami Dikshitar was born in the year 1775 to Ramaswami Dikshitar and Subbamma, in Tiruvarur.
It is said that the birth of Muthuswami was the result of the prayers of his parents for a child, in the temple of Vaitheeswaran Koil.
Muthuswami Dikshitar (1048 words)
Dikshitar’s devotional compositions on gods and goddesses are the quintessence of Jnana.
Dikshitar was well versed in the alapana paddhati as laid down in the treatises on music.
and Sanskrit, was an authority on the compositions of Muthuswami Dikshitar.
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