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Gurumurti Sastri was a composer of Carnatic music who lived during the 18th century in the village of Kayatar in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. [1]
Gurumurthy Sastry was a composer of Carnatic music who lived in the 17th century in the village of Kayatar in the Tirunelveli district of Tamilnadu state. His family name was Pydala. He is a Telugu-speaking Brahmin.He was well-versed in both Sangitha and Sahitya.
Gurumurthy Sastry imbibed music from his guru sonti venkatasubbayya. He had unbounded love and devotion towards his guru. It is evident from his gitas that he refers to his guru as “Gana vidhyadurandhara”. He was the younger contemporary of Ramaswamy Dikshitar.
Gurumurthy Sastry was a prolific composer of Carnatic music.He composed Lakshana gitas to illustrate the characteristics of janaka and janya ragas.Satry is one of the first to attempt gitas in praise of Acharys or Guru. Besides, Gurumurthy also composed fine kritis in rakti ragas.He played an important role laying the foundation for making Madras as important seat of Carnatic music.He was referred to as “Veyi Gita”, since he composed 1000 gitas.He also referred as “Naluvadi vela ragala” one who knows 40,000 ragas. Gurumurthy referred to himself as Ghana naya desya samstapanacharya - who systemized ghana-naya and desya margas ,Sastranja - Master of Science of music, Raaga bheda dureena - Highly proficient in the science of raga), Gita sastra praveena – Well known of science of gita.
The Geetam s he composed in Sanskrit were lost to time. Here are a few that sustained the test of time:
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