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| birth_name = Mysore Venkatesha Doraiswamy Iyengar<br />
| birth_date = 1920<br />
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1997|10|28|1920}} <br />
| death_place = [[Bangalore]], India<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]]<br> [[Sangeetha Kalanidhi]]<br />
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| occupation = Musician<br />
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| known_for = [[Veena]] <br />
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'''Mysore Venkatesha Doraiswamy Iyengar''' (1920-1997) was a [[Carnatic music|Carnatic]] musician and one of the greatest exponents of the [[Saraswati veena|veena]] in modern Indian history.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hindu.com/revents/04/19970499.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-05-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031231092001/http://www.hindu.com/revents/04/19970499.htm |archive-date=31 December 2003 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1423/14230990.htm |title = Latest Volume14-Issue23 News, Photos, Latest News Headlines about Volume14-Issue23}}</ref> Born into a family of classical performing artists, he was a son of Venkatesha Iyengar, a learned [[vainika]] and royal musician at the court of the [[Princely State of Mysore]].{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}<br />
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Doraiswamy started learning the veena from his father at an early age and soon became a disciple of [[Veena Venkatagiriyappa]], one of the foremost vainikas of the day in Mysore.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} He performed in the presence of the then [[Maharaja of Mysore]] at the age of 12.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} Spellbound, the Maharaja presented him with a fifty-rupee silver coin and urged Venkatagiriyappa to nurture Doreswamy as he was bound to bring laurels to the Mysore State.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}<br />
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He gave his first public performance in 1943 at the Bangalore Gayana Samaja.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} He participated in music conferences including one in [[Shiraz, Iran]], in 1969, where he was also invited to perform at the Shiraz Persepolis Festival of Arts.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} Over the course of his career, accolades poured in. He was awarded the [[Padma Bhushan]] by the [[President of India]] in 1983,<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref> the [[Sangeetha Kalanidhi]] of the [[Madras Music Academy]] (1984), the [[Sangeetha Kalasikhamani]] of the Indian Fine Arts Society (1994), the Sangeetha Kalaratna of the Bangalore Gayana Samaj, and the Chowdiah National Memorial Award.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}<br />
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Doraiswamy received a BA degree from [[Maharaja's College, Mysore]].{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} He served as the Music Director at the [[All India Radio]] in [[Bangalore]].{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} The [[University of Mysore]] conferred upon him an Honorary Doctorate in 1975.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}<br />
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In an age when most of the other vainikas had started using the contact [[microphone]], Doraiswamy remained a purist and stuck to the ‘acoustic’ Veena.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} His style of playing is sometimes referred to as the Mysore Style.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} This distinctive style is marked by the movements from one note to another being achieved with the playing fingers (the index and middle fingers of the left hand) parted. This, along with his prolonged, medieval string plucking style enabled him to achieve the continuity of sound so essential to [[Carnatic music]].{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}<br />
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The veena is regarded as a solo, non-orchestral instrument and is accompanied only by [[percussion]] instruments. However, concerts of Doraiswamy Iyengar, accompanied by Mysore T [[Chowdiah]] on the [[violin]], became very popular.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} He participated in many [[Jugalbandi]]s, including with famous Hindustani classical instrumentalists such as [[Ustad]] [[Ali Akbar Khan]].{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} He composed music for dance dramas, especially those of [[P. T. Narasimhachar]], a renowned [[Kannada]] poet.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} Doraiswamy also composed songs for a few Kannada films, notably Subbashastri, starring [[Kalyan Kumar]].{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} Doraiswamy was regularly accompanied on [[mridangam]] by [[Karnataka]] State Awardee V S Rajagopal.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} The noted vainika C. Krishnamurthy was one of Doraiswamy Iyengar's main disciples.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}<br />
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Doraiswamy died aged 77 in [[Bangalore]], India.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} He is survived by his son D. Balakrishna, who was a career banker with the [[Reserve Bank of India]] but is among the foremost veena performers of the day and is the torchbearer of his father's unique Mysore style.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} <br />
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==References==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.kannadaaudio.com/Songs/Classical/home/TyagarajaMasterpieces.php Listen to Tyagaraja Compositions performed by Sri Doreswamy Iyengar]<br />
* [http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/people/iyengars/1078.htm] Image of Sri Doraiswamy Iyengar<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071213081355/http://www.sangeethapriya.org/Downloads/vd/vd.html] his compositions in [[mp3]] format<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071018015249/http://frontlineonnet.com/fl1423/14230990.htm A gentle musician: Tribute to Doreswamy Iyengar]<br />
*[http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1423/14231000.htm R.K. Narayan on Doreswamy Iyengar]<br />
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