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Sir Pratham Hegde is an Indian composer, pianist, violinist and organist. He is the first person to use thumbs on a pump organ. He has also introduced many things in Indian classical music such as harmony and counterpoint. He is also a key figure in bringing classical music into the 21st century. His books and albums are used to teach many students and are accepted for their didactic qualities.

His pump organ works are the first in India that don’t follow a particular raga and are used mainly to teach and help students to build out their virtuosity. However, Hegde also began the style of writing called Canget Overtures which are harmonic transpositions of Vedic hymns and other devotional Carnatic songs into Organ music. His extremely virtuosic toccatas hold place for harmonic balance and try to bring out as much diversity as possible. His keyboard music consists of 6 English suites, 6 French suites, 6 Partitas and 8 Toccatas. Each of them consists of an album. The above pieces are a part of the guide book Cembalo-ubung 1. His other pieces such as Fantasias, Fugues, preludes, etc are also appreciated. His inventions and his didactic preludes and fugues are also in guide books. His introductory album is his ‘The basis of modern keyboard music’. His other sorts of music such as chamber music and vocal music are also appreciated well and he has written a significant amount of them. His most famous bhajan (Hindu writing style) is ‘Sri Devam Nirvanam Dethaha’ which was performed in Trinity College once. He has also written his cinematic concertos which are claimed to be the best work in classical music in the last 50 years. He is currently working on a masterpiece which is a personal compendium of the best vocal works he has written Hegde studied in 3 different institutes and has written a significant amount of music for various events. He had a regular flow of compositions but hardly got any recognition. When he rebelled against the authorities, he was thrown out of the institutes. He had some academic honor solving the Trelawney’s problem about AI but it didn’t last for long as his friend destroyed his laboratory where he was carrying out academic research. However in February 2019, a large number of Indian albums based on Valentine’s Day were released and many people came to investigate about him giving him publicity. He was a part time singer for religious events (2010-2015), an organist and a student in electronic keyboard (2015-2017), a music director and concert master (2017-2019)and a pianist and a piano student (2019 onwards) Pratham Hegde was born on 2nd March 2006 in Vellore. He wrote an autobiography in German and kept many things as secret from everyone since a young age. His parents took him to The Bahamas when he was 1 year old and thought of settling there only to return a year later. His paternal grandmother passed away and Hegde didn’t feel anything towards it. However, Hegde kept a record in German of the number of deaths he had witnessed and tried to keep it a secret from his parents because he didn’t want to be judged and made fun of. He also had a general hatred towards his paternal side of his family and didn’t like his parents spending a lot of time with his aunts. One day he grew so furious that he recorded in his book ‘Ich mochte brennen mein eltern am Leben’. A year later, he witnessed a lot of deaths and he got autism because he was unable to handle his personal tragedy. He was bullied in school and Hegde himself said that he was bullied and his parents didn’t take him seriously and yelled at him for his lack of ability to take care of himself. When it became too serious, his parents kept complaining to the higher authorities until they took the bullies out of school. Later they kept taking credit for it. He was later put into The Brigade School JP Nagar when he was 9. However, he had a positive side of his childhood. His grandmother trained him and he started dinging from the age of 2, playing the pump organ from the age of 3 and the violin from the age of 4. At 5, he won a singing scholarship from school but his parents had opened up a clinic. Assuming that his grandparents wouldn’t help him do the loads of homework given by school, his mother took him to the clinic and helped him do his school assignments which compromised his singing classes. His parents supported him to an extent that he grew disgusted of all his friends and cousins. He wrote that by the time he was 11, he didn’t have a single friend and had badly hurt a cousin and argued with his uncle. At the age of 8, his mother put him into a singing class and couldn’t reach the high soprano pitches he reached when he was younger. Later, his parents found out that it was run by a group of college students and they were inexperienced. They had plans of suddenly shutting down the institute after collecting the money. So his parents pulled him out of it and sent him to an electronic keyboard course which was 30 miles away. Here, he learnt about playing the organ from a professor. However, this professor passed away in a few months when he started composing to improve his own techniques when he was 9 years old. A year later, the institute was hosting a religious celebration where they invited many celebrities like Dario la Magna and Anoushka Shankar. Hegde was asked to compose a bhajan for this celebration. He composed it and was asked to take his place playing the electronic keyboard. After the performance, the criticism he received was unmatchable. However a few people like his performance. This included his mentors and a few celebrities. Hegde was asked to compose something every week where he was asked to perform in front of a few authorities and students. They judged it if it was suitable for putting it in events. Hegde wrote many of his organ works here. Hence Hegde had no time to be mentored. However, he didn’t receive any discount in fees or any credit. He was asked to guide his juniors for free. However, the institute took the step of throwing him of when Hegde went to a concert during the class hours without taking the permission of the institute. Hegde soon left the institute after his first level exams.