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| name = Tanjore Ranganathan<br />
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| birth_name = Tanjore Ranganathan<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1925|3|13}}<br />
| birth_place = Chennai, India<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1987|12|22|1925|3|13}}<br />
| death_place = Middletown, Connecticut, USA<br />
| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist<br />
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| known = [[karnatic music]] - [[drum]]ming<br />
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| relatives = T. Viswanathan (brother), T. Balasaraswathy (sister)}}<br />
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'''Tanjore Ranganathan''' (born [[Chennai|Madras]], [[British India|India]], 13 March 1925 - died 22 December 1987) was a [[Carnatic music]]ian specializing in percussion instruments, particularly the ''[[mridangam]]'', having studied under [[Palani Subramaniam Pillai]].<ref name="NY Times - Tanjore Ranganathan, Drummer, 62">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/24/obituaries/tanjore-ranganathan-drummer-62.html|title=Tanjore Ranganathan, Drummer, 62 |date=24 December 1987|work=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=17 March 2014}}</ref><br />
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Ranganathan began performing professionally in 1938. At the [[California Institute of the Arts]] and [[Wesleyan University]] he taught many non-Indians [[Carnatic music]], including [[Robert E. Brown]], [[John Bergamo]], [[Jon B. Higgins]], Douglas Knight, David Nelson, [[Royal Hartigan]], [[David Moss (musician)|David Moss]], Glenn "Rusty" Gillette, and Craig Woodson. He began teaching at Wesleyan in 1963, becoming that university's first Artist in Residence in Music.<br />
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Ranganathan's younger brother was the [[Carnatic flute]] player and vocalist [[T. Viswanathan]] (1927-2002). The two recorded the music for the [[Satyajit Ray]] documentary film ''[[Bala (1976 film)|Bala]]'' (1976), about their elder sister, the ''[[bharatanatyam]]'' dancer [[Balasaraswati]].<br />
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The American composer [[Henry Cowell]] composed the mridangam part in his ''[[Madras Symphony]]'' especially for T. Ranganathan.<br />
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Ranganathan died after a long illness, at the age of 62. He was survived by his wife Edwina, and sons Suddhama and Arun.<ref name="NY Times - Tanjore Ranganathan, Drummer, 62"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://dpnelson.web.wesleyan.edu/ranganathan.html T. Ranganathan page] by David Nelson<br />
*[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3D81630F937A15751C1A961948260 Obituary] from ''The New York Times''<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Ramnad Raghavan]]<br />
*[[S. Ramanathan (musician)|S. Ramanathan]]<br />
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