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'''Bimalendu Mukherjee''' (2 January 1925 - 22 January 2010) <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.justdial.com/JdSocial/news/1548131611980000 |title=Archived copy |access-date=26 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026185134/https://www.justdial.com/JdSocial/news/1548131611980000 |archive-date=26 October 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was an [[Hindustani classical music|Indian classical]] [[sitar]] player and music teacher.<ref>{{cite news |title=Stringing along |url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2008/10/10/stories/2008101051000300.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014064611/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2008/10/10/stories/2008101051000300.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 October 2008 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=10 October 2008 |accessdate=6 May 2009 }}</ref><ref name =WWIM >{{cite book|title=Who's who of Indian musicians|publisher=[[Sangeet Natak Akademi]]|year=1968|pages=45}}</ref><br />
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Mukherjee is a learned and eclectic musician – although he was an Imdadkhani sitar student of [[Enayat Khan]], a full list of his teachers also includes sitarist Balaram Pathak, [[khyal]] singers Badri Prasad and Jaichand Bhatt of the [[Patiala gharana|Patiala]] and [[Kirana gharana|Kirana]] [[gharana]]s, Rampur gharana [[Rudra veena|beenkar]] Jyotish Chandra Chowdhury, [[sarangi]] and [[esraj]] players Halkeram Bhat ([[Maihar gharana]]) and Chandrikaprasad Dube (Gaya gharana{{what|date=April 2018}}) and [[pakhavaj]] player Madhavrao Alkutkar. He also studied with Birendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury, the [[zamindar]] of [[Gauripur Upazila|Gouripur]] in present-day [[Bangladesh]], who taught him the moribund [[sursringar]] (bass [[sarod]]).<br />
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Mukherjee is the father and teacher of sitar player [[Budhaditya Mukherjee]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kinnear|first=Michael S|title=A discography of Hindustani and Karnatic music|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=1985|pages=39|isbn=0-313-24479-0}}</ref> His other students include [[Shri Sudhakar Sheolikar]], [[Shri Avneendra Sheolikar]], [[Sanjoy Bandopadhyay]], [[Sudhir (musician)|Sudhir]], [[Anupama Bhagwat]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Sitar recital set for San Ramon |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=OKTB&p_theme=oktb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=111B86B9D18BDA10&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=[[The Oakland Tribune]] |date=19 May 2006 |accessdate=6 May 2009 }}</ref> [[Rajeev Janardan]], and [[Kamala Shankar]].<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090606190222/http://www.anupama.org/myguru.htm Bimalendu Mukherjee bio] by [[Anupama Bhagwat]]<br />
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