Alain Daniélou (1907–1994)
Forfatter af The Complete Kama Sutra
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Alain Danielou was born in Paris in 1907. After studying in France and the United States, he devoted himself to musicology, traveling in North Africa, the Middle East, China, Japan, and Indonesia. He then settled in India, first at Santiniketan and then at Benares, where for more than twenty years vis mere he studied Sanskrit, music, and philosophy with traditional Hindu scholars. In 1945, he was appointed Assistant Director/Professor of the College of Music at the Hindu University of Benares. He founded and directed the Institute for Comparative Music Studies in Berlin and Venice, also directing the UNESCO anthologies of Oriental Music and Musical Sources. In 1971, he donated his precious library to the Cini Foundation in Venice. The author of more than thirty books on the religion, history, and arts of India and the Mediterranean, Alain Danielou died in 1994 vis mindre
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Værker af Alain Daniélou
The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series (1964) 212 eksemplarer
While the Gods Play: Shaiva Oracles and Predictions on the Cycles of History and the Destiny of Mankind (1985) 48 eksemplarer
Music and the Power of Sound: The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness (1995) 39 eksemplarer
Virtue, Success, Pleasure, and Liberation: The Four Aims of Life in the Tradition of Ancient India (1993) 18 eksemplarer
A Catalogue of Recorded Classical and Traditional Indian music: With an introd. on Indian musical theory and… 2 eksemplarer
Le Shiva-Svarodaya : la naissance du souffle de vie révélé par le dieu Shiva : ancien traité de présages et… (1981) 2 eksemplarer
Yoga, the Method of Re-Integration 1 eksemplar
a musical anthology of the orient LP 1 eksemplar
Musical sources - Kurdish Music (Vinyl) 1 eksemplar
Kathâkali: le théâtre dansé de l'Inde 1 eksemplar
India ajalugu 1 eksemplar
Bharata Natyam : der klassische Tanz Indiens 1 eksemplar
Hindu polytheism 1 eksemplar
Hindu polytheism 1 eksemplar
Storia dell'India 1 eksemplar
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DANIELOU, Alain - Fødselsdato
- 1907-10-04
- Dødsdag
- 1994-01-27
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- male
- Nationalitet
- France (birth)
- Fødested
- Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
- Dødssted
- Lonay, Vaud, Switzerland
- Bopæl
- Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Lonay, Vaud, Switzerland - Uddannelse
- Institution Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix, Neuilly-sur-Seine
St. John's College, Annapolis - Erhverv
- French Historian
Musicologist
Indologist - Relationer
- Daniélou, Jean (brother)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- UNESCO/CIM (Music ∙ 1981)
Kathmandu Medal (1987)
Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (1991)
Broquette-Gonin prize (1972)
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