page_title: Kundgol
section_title: Hindustani music and Kundgol
hierarchical_section_title: Kundgol / Hindustani music and Kundgol
caption_attribution_description: English: Kundgol, wade, 15 km from Hubli Author and Source&#160;: Manjunath Doddamani, Gajendragad, Karnataka (North), India
context_page_description: Kundgol also spelled as Kundagola is a panchayat town in Dharwad district in the Indian state of Karnataka.
context_section_description: Pandit Sawai Gandharva
  Rambhau Kundgolkar, popularly known as Sawai Gandharva, was born here in 1886.
  Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
  Pandit Bhimsen Joshi travelled all over the country looking for an elusive guru. Finally a musician advised him to return home as the best guru was actually very near to his home, Sawai Gandharva in Kundgol. At first the guru rejected Joshi saying his voice is not good but, finally agreed to take him after seeing his determination and thirst for music.
  According to Gangubai Hangal,  Late Abdul Karim Khan visited Dharwad in 1900 and taught Sawai Gandharva, a guru who produced many great disciplines like Dr Hangal and Pandit Bhimsen Joshi. The Nadgir family of Kundgol is known for patronising Hindustani music.
  To cater to the needs of cultural activities the Dharwad city boasts of an opera house  Savai  Gandharava Natyagraha 
  named after the great Hindustani Musician  Savai Gandharva the native of Kundgol town near Hubli, on the Hubli - Bangalore rail line. The great celebrity in Hindustani music of the modern times. Dr. Smt. Gangubai Hangal also
  hails  from this place and  a resident of Hubli.
  Dr. Smt. Gangubai Hangal 
  was born in the family of musicians on 5 March 1913 at Dharwad. Her mother
  Smt Ambabai was a renowned carnatic singer and father Sri Chikkurao Nadiger of Ranebennur was
  an agriculturist. Dr Gangubai was Initiated into music by her mother.
  She learnt music under the guidance of Sri Krishnamacharya Hulgur and later under Sri Sawai Gandharv
  alias Sri Rambhau Kundgolkar a disciple of late Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, the main architect of kirana gharana
  school of music.
caption: Wade at Kundagol. Sawai Gandharva, Bhimsen Joshi, Gangubai Hangal are associated with this Wade
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