Pandit vishwa mohan bhatt biography

Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (b. Rajasthan, India, ) is an exponent of Hindustani music (North Indian classical music). Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is one of the most celebrated shishyas (disciples) of the Sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar. Born in Jaipur in Rajasthan in July , he is the younger brother of Shashi Mohan Bhatt; who was one of the first three students to study with Shankar circa /50, and the father of sitarist Krishna Mohan Bhatt.

Much of his formative musical education came from his family. His father Manmohan Bhatt taught and as a boy Vishwa Mohan Bhatt soaked up his father's singing, compositions and ragas.

Bhatt originally did not mean to pursue a career in music.

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He prepared for the security of the Indian civil service while studying sitar and violin. Around he found a Spanish Guitar left behind by a German student at his father's music school in Jaipur. Bhatt claimed it for his own and set about remodelling it. After experimenting with the instrument's structure, l