Mushtaq Hussain Khan

Ustad Mushtaq Hussain Khan
Background information
Born	1878
Origin	Sahaswan, Budaun District, Uttar Pradesh, India
Died	13th of August, 1964
Genres	Hindustani classical music
Occupation(s)	Vocalist

Mushtaq Hussain Khan (1878–1964), popularly known as Ustad Mushtaq Hussain Khan, was an Hindustani Classical Music vocalist. He belonged to the Rampur-Sahaswan gharana.

Mushtaq Hussain Khan was born in a family of traditional musicians in Sahaswan, a small town in Budaun District of Uttar Pradesh. It is where he grew up and spent his boyhood. He lisped musical notes almost before he learnt to speak.

Although music came to him quite early in life, it was only his tenth year that his father Ustad Kallan Khan held his hand and began giving him regular lessons or rather introduced him into this art. Mushtaq Hussain Khan was twelve when he became the privileged disciple of Ustad Haider Khan and went with him to Kathmandu, Nepal. He then began taking minimal music training from Haider Khan. Finally, after two years, Mushtaq Hussain Khan came under the tutelage of Ustad Inayat Hussain Khan, it is when he was groomed into perfection. Collectively, he spent eighteen years of his life with his master and these years were not spent in vein.

At the age of thirty-five, Mushtaq Hussain Khan was enlisted as one of the court musicians in Rampur. Later, he became the Chief Court Musician of Rampur.

Mushtaq Hussain Khan received the Rashtrapati Award in 1952. He was also the first recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi award in the vocal category. In 1956, he retired from Rampur and joined the Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra, New Delhi the following year and received Padma Bhushan in 1957.

Mushtaq Hussain Khan passed away on 13 August, 1964.

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