अन्नपूर्णा देवी

Devi performed publicly with her first husband and fellow disciple Ravi Shankar during the 1940s and 1950s. Despite her short performing career and the scarcity of recordings of her playing, her musicianship was held in unusually high regard. Shankar himself described her playing as being of an "extremely advanced order" and her command of Allauddin Khan's repertoire and style as impeccable. Her brother Ali Akbar Khan also placed her musicianship above his own and that of several other leading instrumentalists of their generation. She was the only known female maestro of the surbahar in the twentieth century.
After withdrawing from public performance, Devi devoted herself principally to teaching. Her students included Nikhil Banerjee, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Nityanand Haldipur, Aashish Khan, Basant Kabra and other prominent musicians.