Alain Daniélou

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Alain Daniélou

Alain Daniélou (born October 4, 1907 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , Hauts-de-Seine , † January 27, 1994 in Lonay , Switzerland ) was a French Indologist , musicologist , author and university professor .

Life

Daniélou's father was the Breton politician Charles Daniélou and his mother Madeleine Clamorgan founded a Christian educational organization for teachers. One of his brothers was the Roman Catholic prelate Jean Daniélou .

Daniélou studied singing with Charles Panzéra as well as classical dance with Nicholas Legat and composition with Max d'Ollone .

His partner from 1931 was Raymond Burnier, Swiss photographer and later husband of Radha Burnier . He traveled with him to India in 1932 , where both were enthusiastic about the country's culture and art. Among other things, they visited the temples of Khajuraho and later gained international attention with their photos of the temple complexes. The first photo exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum featured images taken by Daniélou in Khajuraho.

In the following years Daniélou wrote several Indian books on the wisdom of the Veda , Indian philosophy and Shaivism . In 1949 Daniélou got a job as a professor at the Hindu Banaras Hindu University and became director of the College of Indian Music . In 1963 he founded the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation in West Berlin and was its first director until 1975. In the 1960s, through this institute, he published the Unesco Collection: A Musical Anthology of the Orient ( German title: Music of the Orient ).

Daniélou wrote more than 30 books on Indian music and culture. He also worked as a painter and photographer. Daniélou studied Indian classical music in Varanasi with Shivendranath Basu and learned the traditional Indian plucked instrument vina . He wrote works for classical Indian music and translated several works by the Indian monk Swami Karpatri which it into the Shaivism introduced.

Works

Indian religion, philosophy and society

  • Yoga, Méthode de Réintégration . Édition de L'Arche, 1951, ISBN 2-85181-022-7
  • L'Histoire de l'Inde . Fayard, 1971, 1983, ISBN 2-213-01254-7
  • Shiva et Dionysus, La Religion de la Nature et de l'Eros, de la préhistoire à l'avenir . Arthème Fayard, 1979, ISBN 221301762X
  • La Fantaisie des Dieux et l'Aventure Humaine . Éditions du Rocher, 1985, ISBN 2-268-01323-5
  • Le Destin du monde d'après la tradition shivaïte . Albin Michel, 1992, ISBN 2-226-05971-7
  • Les Quatre Sens de la Vie et la structure sociale de l'Inde Traditionnelle . Éditions du Rocher, Paris, 1992, ISBN 2-268-01403-7
  • Le phallus . Édition Pardès, 1993, ISBN 2-86714-115-X
  • Mythes et Dieux de L'Inde, le polythéisme hindou . Édition Champ-Flammarion, 1994, ISBN 2-08-081309-9
  • L'Érotisme divinisé . (Foreword by Jean-Louis Gabin) Édition du Rocher, 2002
  • The correspondance between Alain Daniélou and René Guénon . Édition Leo S. Olschki, 2002, ISBN 88-222-5099-0
  • La Civilization des différences . (Foreword by Jean-Louis Gabin) Editions Kailash, 2003, ISBN 2-84268-097-9
  • Shivaïsme et Tradition primordiale (preface by Jean-Louis Gabin) Éditions Kailash, 2004, ISBN 2-84268-103-7
  • Approche de l'hindouisme . (Introduction and afterword by Jean-Louis Gabin) Editions Kailash, 2004, ISBN 2-84268-111-8
  • Yoga, Kâma le corps est un temple . (Foreword by Jean-Louis Gabin) Édition Kailash, 2006, ISBN 2-84268-126-6

music

  • La Musique du Laos et du Cambodge . Institut Français d'Indologie, 1957
  • Tableau Comparatif des Intervalles Musicaux . Institut Français d'Indologie, 1958
  • Text of the Purâna sur la théorie musicale . Institut Français d'Indologie, 1959
  • Le Gitalamkara L'ouvrage original de Bharata sur la Musique. Institut Français d'Indologie, 1959
  • Traité de Musicologie Comparée , éditions Hermann, 1959, ISBN 2-7056-1265-3
  • Trois Chansons de Rabîndranâth Tagore . Editions Ricordi, 1961
  • La Musique de l'Inde du Nord . Éditions Buchet-Chastel, 1966, ISBN 2-85194-383-9
  • Sémantique Musicale, Essai de Psychophysiologie auditive . Editions Hermann, 1967, ISBN 2-7056-1334-X
  • Translated from Sanskrit: Bharata Nâtyam, Danse classique de l'Inde . Nandikeshvara, Publication de l'Institut International d'Études Comparatives de la Musique, 1970
  • La Situation de la Musique et des Musiciens dans les Pays d'Orient . Editions Léo S. Olschki, 1971
  • Together with Kapila Vatsyayan: Kathakali, Le théâtre dansé de l'Inde . Publication de l'Institut International d'Études Comparatives de la Musique, 1971
  • Origines et pouvoirs de la musique . (Foreword by Jean-Louis Gabin) Editions Kailash, 2003, ISBN 2-84268-090-1
  • Poèmes chantés - Rabîndranâth Tagore . Éditions Michel de Maule, 2005, ISBN 2-87623-147-6

In German

  • Introduction to Indian Music. (Paperback books on musicology, Volume 36) Heinrichshofen's Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1975
  • South asia. Indian music and its traditions. Music history in pictures . Volume 1: Ethnic Music . Delivery 1. German Publishing House for Music, Leipzig 1978

Discography

  • Unesco Collection: A Musical Anthology of the Orient
  • Anthology of Indian Classical Music - A Tribute to Alain Daniélou
  • Musiciens et Danseurs de la caste des Ahirs , 1951
  • Religious Music of India , 1952
  • Musical Sources (Philips, Holland)
  • Anthology of North Indian Classical Music - (Bärenreiter-Musicaphon, Kassel)

Prizes and awards (selection)

Daniélou was officer of the Légion d'Honneur , officer of the Ordre National du Mérite and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres . In 1981 he received the UNESCO / CIM Prize for Music and in 1987 the Kathmandu Medal of UNESCO .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography alaindanielou.org

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Daniélou, Alain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author, indologist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuilly-sur-Seine , Hauts-de-Seine department , France
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1994
Place of death Lonay , Switzerland