Hafeez Ahmed Khan (died 2006) was an Indian classical musician of

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. He is known as one of the leading exponents of the Rampur-Sahaswan gharana, a musical school popular in the northern parts of the Indian state of

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. He learnt music in

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system and pursued his academic studies the conventional way, secured a master's degree in politics and taught at the

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. He was a deputy director of the

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and the vice chancellor of the

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, the only Indian university dedicated to music. He mentored many disciples such as

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, Roma Rani Bhattacharya, Sakuntala Narasimhan and Subhendu Ghosh and acted in a German movie on the life of Tansen, by name, ''The Rain Maker''. He was a recipient of the 1996 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the

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in 1991. Hafeez Ahmed Khan, who was married to the daughter of renowned singer, Nissar Hussain Khan, died in 2006.

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