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Shyama Shastri

Actual Name : Venkata Subrahmanya

From : 26th April, 1762 To : 6th Feb, 1827

Father : Visvanatha Iyer

Mother : Vengalakshmi

Place of birth : Thiruvarur in Tanjavur Dist of Tamilnadu

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Biography

Shyama Shastri was the oldest of the Trinity of Carnatic music. He was a contemporary of the other two, Tyagaraja and Muthuswamy Dikshitar, and was a personal friend of the former. Muthuswami Dikshitar and Shyama Shastri were good friends. They often met and spent hours together singing. Shyama Shastri had deep regard for Tyagaraja.

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Shyama Shastri

SHYĀMA SHĀSTRI (1762–1827), South Indian poet and composer. Shyāma Shāstri was the oldest of the three nineteenth-century South Indian poet-composers known as the the "Trinity." His compositions can be recognized by the name Shyāma Krishna, which he inserted in his lyrics as his signature (mudrā). Although barely fifty of his songs (tānavarnam, kriti, and svarajati) have been preserved, they form an important part of the South Indian concert repertoire.

Having grown up in a musical environment, he became an accomplished singer with the help of a visiting musician. Pacchimiriyam Ādiyappayya, a prominent court musician at Tanjāvūr, then became his mentor. (Ādiyappayya's majestic piece in Bhairavi rāga, "Viribōni," is widely regarded as the best tāna varnam ever composed.)

A hereditary priest, he was entrusted with the responsibility of the Kāmākshi Amman temple in Tiruvārūr, his place of birth, where his ancestors had fled from Kanchipuram in the wake of the fall of Vijayanagar in 1565. The temple idol of Bangāru Kāmākshi, kept in their custody, was in

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Shyama Shastri facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Shyama Shastri

Born	Venkata Subrahmanya (1762-04-26)26 April 1762 Thiruvarur, Thanjavur Maratha kingdom
Died	1827 (aged 64-65)
Other names	Shyama Krishna
Occupation	Carnatic music composer

Shyama Shastri (IAST: Śyāma Śāstri; 26 April 1762 – 1827) or Syama Sastri was a musician and composer of Carnatic music. He was the oldest among the Trinity of Carnatic music, Tyagaraja and Muthuswami Dikshitar being the other two.

Early life and career

Shyama Shastri was born on 26 April 1762 in a Telugu Brahmin family, who are said to have migrated from Cumbum, Andhra Pradesh. He was born in Tiruvarur in what is now the state of Tamil Nadu.He received his instruction in the vedas, astrology, and other traditional subjects early on and learned music from his maternal uncle. He was later trained in music by Adiappayya, a noted durbar musician of Thanjavur.

Although Śyāma Śastri did not compose as many kritis as his two prolific contemporaries, his compositions are still well known due to the literary