Acquaintances

Everyone this archive can name — for now the people who wrote the notation down, and the one who translated the words.

The poet Rabindranath Tagore 1861–1941 Poet, composer and painter; the words and the melodies of every song in Gitabitan are his. Nobel laureate in Literature, 1913. Every word and every melody in this archive is his. The people below are the ones who wrote them down. 1 songs notated · 130 songs translated

• Dinendranath Tagore 1882–1935 Rabindranath's grand-nephew and the principal notator of his songs — the poet called him the keeper of all his songs. Taught music at Santiniketan. 772 songs notated
• Indira Debi Chowdhurani 1873–1960 Rabindranath's niece — scholar, translator and musician, who set down a great many of his songs in notation. 297 songs notated
• Shailajaranjan Majumdar 1900–1992 A teacher of chemistry at Visva-Bharati who became one of the great teachers of Rabindrasangeet, and the notator of many songs of the poet's last years. 239 songs notated
• Kangalicharan Sen Notators 201 songs notated
• Anadikumar Dastidar 1903–1974 Singer and teacher, and one of the notable propagators of Rabindrasangeet. 148 songs notated
• Surendranath Bandopadhyay 1886–1972 Musician of the Vishnupur gharana, known as Sangitratnakar, and a notator of Rabindrasangeet. 129 songs notated
• Jyotirindranath Tagore 1849–1925 Rabindranath's elder brother — playwright, composer and painter, a pioneer of written notation for Bengali song, and a formative presence in the young poet's life. 121 songs notated
• Bhimrao Shastri Notators 77 songs notated
• Sushilkumar Bhanja Chowdhury Notators 56 songs notated
• Shantideb Ghosh 1910–1999 An ashramite of Santiniketan who learnt his songs from Rabindranath himself and travelled with him to Sri Lanka, Java and Bali. Singer, dancer, actor, author and long-serving teacher at Sangit Bhavana. 53 songs notated
• Sudhir Chandra Kar 1906–1977 Rabindranath's personal scribe in his last years: when illness kept the poet from writing, he dictated and Sudhirchandra set it down. 34 songs notated
• Sarala Debi 1872–1945 Swarnakumari Devi's daughter and Rabindranath's niece — a trained musician, educationist and nationalist who founded the Bharat Stree Mahamandal in 1910. 28 songs notated
• Prafulla Kumar Das Exponent of Rabindrasangeet and author of Rabindra-Sangeet Prasanga (Calcutta, 1961). 11 songs notated
• Pratibha Debi Notators 8 songs notated
• Sahana Debi 1897–1990 A singer whom Rabindranath held in deep affection, and among the most widely heard voices in Rabindrasangeet; later a disciple of Sri Aurobindo at Pondicherry. 8 songs notated
• Roma Majumdar Notators 7 songs notated
• Arnold Adriaan Bake (A. A. Bake) 1899–1963 Dutch musicologist who lived at Santiniketan with his wife in the 1920s — Rabindranath called the couple Aruni and Karuna — and later taught at the School of Oriental Studies in London. 4 songs notated
• Roma Kar Notators 2 songs notated
• Samaresh Chowdhury Notators 2 songs notated
• Subhash Chowdhury 1933–2012 Teacher, researcher and critic of Rabindrasangeet. 2 songs notated
• Vidyadhar Venkatesh Wazalwar (V. V. Wazalwar) Notators 2 songs notated
• Arundhati Devi 1925–1990 Bengali actress, film director and writer, and a singer of Rabindrasangeet. 1 songs notated
• Baman Shirodkar Notators 1 songs notated
• Brajendralal Ganguly Notators 1 songs notated
• Mohini Sengupta Notators 1 songs notated
• Ramesh Chandra Bandopadhyay Notators 1 songs notated
• Upal Das Notators 1 songs notated
• Vistas Ardeshir Balsara (V. Balsara) 1922–2005 Music arranger, composer and multi-instrumentalist — piano, harmonium, organ, accordion — who settled in Calcutta and was celebrated for his instrumental renderings of Bengali song. 1 songs notated

Many of these names — Baman Shirodkar, V. V. Wazalwar, Kangalicharan Sen, Roma Kar and others — return nothing on Wikidata, either Wikipedia, or Internet Archive full-text search. Their pages hold a name and their songs, and nothing more. They need a printed Bengali music reference, not another database.