Hafiz Ali Khan

Hafiz Ali Khan (1888 – December 1972) was an Indian sarod player.

A fifth-generation descendant of the Bangash gharana (school or style) of sarod players, Hafiz Ali was known for the lyrical beauty of his music and the crystal-clear tone of his strokes on the sarod instrument. The occasional critic has, however, observed that Khan's imagination was often closer to the semi-classical thumri idiom… More