[2] The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1984.
He received his early training in Hindustani classical music at Vishnu Digambar Paluskar's academy in Lahore.
[4] In the early years, there were few students, and Maudgalya would go around on his bicycle trying to persuade families to send their children to his academy.
[6] He was married to Padma Devi and the couple had two sons, Madhup Mudgal, a renowned musician and the incumbent principal of Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, Mukul Mudgal, the retired Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court who headed the Mudgal Committee, comprising Additional Solicitor General of India L Nageswara Rao and senior advocate and former cricket umpire Nilay Dutta, appointed by the Supreme Court to conduct an independent inquiry into the allegation of corruption, betting and spot-fixing in 2013 Indian Premier League [7] and a daughter, Madhavi Mudgal, an Odissi exponent.
[9] Mudgalya's music pursuit is one of the main features of the 2002 documentary film, Pratidhwani - Echoes, made by Basheer Ali which focuses on other renowned musicians such as Mohan Nadkarni, Naushad, Vasant Paluskar and Ravi Shankar as well.