AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC

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Sripada Pinakapani’s successful quest for passing on his encyclopaedic
knowledge of music to future generations, and a life immersed in pursuit
of various great renderings of maestros truly made him a sadguru, his
disciple and noted exponent of Carnatic music Nedunuri Krishnamurthy has
said.



Speaking at a Shraddhanjali organised by Visakha Samskrutika Sabhaa
Samakya on Monday, he said he was an ocean of musical knowledge, and an
ideal for future generations. He made it a point to listen to greats
like Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, whom he considered his ideal, G.N.
Balasubramaniam, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, among others, and wrote
thousands of notations. His “swarajnanam” and writing down notations
were legendary.



Recalling that he had learnt music along with Nukala Chinna
Satyanarayana, Srirangam Gopalaratnam and Voleti Venkateswarlu, among
others, he said he continued to learn the art after Dr. Pinakapani
shifted to Kurnool, where he later became a principal of the medical
college there.



His success in the South, in spite of being from Andhra Pradesh, owed a
lot to his learning from Dr. Pinakapani, Mr. Krishnamurthy said.



He breathed music, and his only passion was to bequeath his knowledge to future generations, he said.


Nedunuri’s plea




Mr. Krishnamurthy wanted the samakhya to create an endowment in Dr.
Pinakapani’s name, and also make efforts to install his statue on the
beach road. Mr. Krishnamurthy performed his first public performance in
Visakhapatnam in 1939 after completing his medical education.



Noted actor Gollapudi Maruti Rao described Dr. Pinakapani as one of the
three great persons who lived 100 years of life with fulfilment and
achieved greatness. The other two were Sir Mokshagundam Visvesarayya and
Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati.


By bringing out books on music and its nuances, his contribution to the
hoary guru-sishya parampara in music was immense, Mr. Maruti Rao said.
He recalled the innumerable interviews he carried out with the legendary
musicologist.



Describing him as the musician of the century, Director of NSTL S.V.
Rangarajan said he wrote notations like a bee collecting honey from
innumerable flowers. He picked up the nuances of the Tanjore style of
music and passed it on to his sishyas. He was selfless, and got a
‘vaddanam’ made for Sitammavaru at Bhadrachalam with the gold medals he
received.



Visakha Rasagna Vedika president G. Raghurama Rao described him as a
person who achieved excellence both as a doctor and musician. Visakha
Music and Dance Academy president C.S.N. Raju compared him to
saint-composer Tyagaraja. Dr. Pinakapani was preoccupied with writing
notations even when he was 90 years old, he said, recalling his
experience when he went to present “Nada Vidyabharati” title to him at
Kurnool.



Earlier, samakhya co-ordinator G. Prabhakar made an interesting
presentation on the life and times of Dr. Pinakapani. Samakhya convenors
S. Vijay Kumar and G.R.K. Prasad participated. Earlier, Dr. Bhamidipati
Kanaka Durga Prasad presented a veena recital.

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