Mohammad Hashem Cheshti

Mohammad Hashem Cheshti
Origin	Kabul, Afghanistan
Died	1994 Germany
Genres	Klasik
Instruments	Tabla

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]

Ustad Hashem was born and raised in an extremely 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]

See also

• Music of Afghanistan

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} http://www.afghanland.com/entertainment/hashem.html
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2002/mar/11/artsfeatures.afghanistan
3. ^ ^{a b} http://www.amc.org.uk/education/articles/shrines_of_afghanistan.htm
4. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeKK_zztZqQ
5. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTC7jPNOhZw
6. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0oUYY4sUeo
7. ^ http://www.volkskrant.nl/kunst/article316119.ece/Zangeres_van_de_vrijheid_in_bruisend_Kabul
8. ^ http://ustad_farida_mahwash.mondomix.com/en/portrait1012.htm
9. ^ http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1990/9010070034.asp
10. ^ http://www.storydancer.com/index.php?page=performer
11. ^ http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/fr/2006/03/24/stories/2006032401950200.htm
12. ^ John Baily, "Music of Afghanistan: professional musicians in the city of Herat", Cambridge University Press 1988, ISBN 0521250005
13. ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/mar/10/terrorism.september116

Persondata
Name	Cheshti, Mohammad Hashem
Alternative names
Short description	Afghan contemporary classical musician
Date of birth
Place of birth	Kharabat, Kabul
Date of death	1994
Place of death	Germany