Maha Vaidyanatha Iyer

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Picture of M. V. Sivan

Maha Vaidyanatha Sivan (Template:Lang-ta) (23 May 1844 – 27 January 1893) was a composer of Carnatic music. He was a great exponent of extemporaneous singing. He also composed a ragamalika (garland of ragas - a song that utilises more than one raga) with all the 72 melakartha ragas.

Vaidyanatha Iyer was born in the village of Viyacheri in the Thanjavur districts of Tamil Nadu. His father Duraisami Iyer was also a musician and he trained Vaidyanatha Iyer as well as his other sons in Carnatic music. Vaidyanatha Iyer continued his training with some of the well known musicians of his time including Anai Ayya brothers. Later he continued his training under Manambuchavadi Venkatasubbayyar, one of Tyagaraja’s disciples. He was famous for his elaboration of ragas (raga alapana). Maha Vaidyanatha Sivan and his elder brother, Ramaswami Sivan, were the earliest performing duo in the history of Carnatic music as known in the last two centuries.

He composed mainly in Telugu and Tamil and used the mudra 'Guhadasa'. Some of his famous compositions are Pahimam Srirajarajeswari (Janaranjani) and Neekela dayaradu (Sarasangi).

Compositions

Composition	Raga	Tala	Type	Language	Other Info	Audio Links
nIkEla daya rAdu	sarasAngi	khanDa cApu		Telugu	Credited to his brother Ramaswamy Sivan
pAhimAm SrI rAja rAjEswarI	jana ranjani	Adi		Sanskrit	Credited to his brother Ramaswamy Sivan	Sudha Raghunathan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_QYi6J__iU
praNatArti hara prabhO purArE	Raga Malika	Adi		Sanskrit	72-Melakarta Raga malika	R. Vedavalli - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtg_ntm6oSU
Sri shankara guru varam	Naga Swarali	Rupaka		Sanskrit		MS Sheela - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTpD-ZS_41I Voleti Venkateswarlu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxnB6b9Ugv4

See also

• List of Carnatic composers

References

• Karnatica.com at the Wayback Machine (archived September 19, 2004)
• carnatica.net
• Carnaticcorner.com