The major composers like
Annamacharya,
Tyagaraja,
Bhadrachala Ramadas,
Kshetrayya,
Bhuloka tsapa chutti (One who carpeted the Earth)
Bobbili Keshavayya,
Karvetinagaram composers like Govindasamayya and Sarangapani were pioneers in the field of Carnatic music. In the area of instrumental music, giants such as Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu (violin),
Emani Sankara Sastry (
veena),
Sheik Chinna Moulana (
Nadaswaram), and
Chitti Babu (veena) are famous. Contemporary stalwarts of Vocal music include Voleti Venkatesvarulu,
Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna,
Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, Dwaram Bhavanarayana Rao,
Srirangam Gopalaratnam,
Sripada Pinakapani,
Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana, Lalita & Haripriya, D. Raghavachary & Seshachary, Dr. Dwaram Lakshmi,
Manda Sudharani, Parthasarathy N. Ch, and Dr. Dwaram Tyagaraj. Also Yella Venkatesara Rao,
Patri Satish Kumar (
mridangam), Pantula Rama,
U. Srinivas (
mandolin), D. Srinivas (
veena), Tirupati Srivani Yalla (
veena), Marella Kesava Rao, Ivaturi Vijayeshwara Rao, Akella Mallikarjuna Sharma, and
Avasarala Kanyakumari (
Violin) are some of the eminent instrumentalists from
Andhra Pradesh. ==Film music==