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Mohammad Hashem Cheshti, also known with surname Chishti and as Ustad Hashem (Persian: استاد هاشم), was a contemporary classical musician and composer born in Kharabat area of Kabul,[1] Afghanistan, who died in 1994 in Germany under unclear circumstances.[1]
Mohammad Hashem Cheshti | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Kabul, Afghanistan |
| Died | 1994 Germany |
| Genres | Klasik |
| Instrument | Tabla |
Ustad Hashem was born and raised in a musical family, which originally came from Kasur in Punjab, but settled in the 19th century in Kabul as court musicians.[2][3] Several of his close family members, including his brothers and his father are/were also famous musicians in their own right.[2][3] Both he and his brothers appeared regularly on Afghan Television and Radio prior to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent wars.[2][4][5] He accompanied regularly other famous Afghan musicians like Ahmad Zahir and Ustad Mahwash on his tabla.[2][6]
He was the teacher and mentor of Ustad Mahwash,[2][7][8] the first Afghan female master musician and Zuleikha, a US American dancer and artist.[2][9][10][11] He mastered many different traditional Afghan instruments, but his greatest passion was for the tabla, his mastership of which was supreme.[1][2][12][13] Following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan he had to flee his home country[1][2] and emigrated to Germany where he died in 1994,[2] killed by one of his former students for reasons unknown.[1]
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i Baily, John (11 March 2002). "Cry freedom: the story of singer Farida Mahwash". Theguardian.com.
- ^ a b "Asian Music Circuit | Education | Specialist Articles". Archived from the original on 5 January 2009. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
- ^ Thunder004 (13 December 2008). "Tabla of Ustad Hashem & Ustad Asef تبله استاد هاشم و استاد آصف" – via YouTube.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Thunder004 (29 December 2008). "Ustad Hashem Rag استاد هاشم - راگ" – via YouTube.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)[dead link] - ^ PEACE MAKER 007 (25 October 2007). "AHMAD ZAHIR with Lyrics مجلسی تبله استاد هاشم". Archived from the original on 12 December 2021 – via YouTube.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "VK Home". Archived from the original on 14 September 2012.
- ^ "Ustad Farida Mahwash ||| Portrait - Mondomix". Archived from the original on 6 January 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
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- ^ "Storydancer". Storydancer.
- ^ "The Hindu : Friday Review Delhi / Dance : Millions of dancing cells". Archived from the original on 11 November 2007. Retrieved 23 May 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ John Baily, "Music of Afghanistan: professional musicians in the city of Herat", Cambridge University Press 1988, ISBN 0-521-25000-5
- ^ "My world changed forever: life after 9/11". Theguardian.com. 10 March 2002.
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