Composers

7 Apr 1920

Ravi Shankar

Sitarist and composer who brought Hindustani classical music to a global audience through collaborations with Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison, and who wrote three concertos for sitar and orchestra.

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7 May 1861

Rabindranath Tagore

Poet, composer and playwright, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1913. Wrote the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh, and reshaped Bengali letters almost single-handedly.

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