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Alain Daniélou (1907-1994): scholar of Indian languages and religions,painter, dancer, musician, and photographer, linguist and musicologist, is the author ofover fourty books on Indian religion, music and culture translated in a dozen of languages.Daniélou lived in Santiniketan and participated in the educational programmes ofRabindranath Tagore, where he orchestrated the Indian national anthem and the nationalsong. Daniélou studied Sanskrit and Hinduism with pandits in Varanasi and Indian classicalmusic with Shivendranath Basu, he learnt to play the rudraveena. With Omkarnath Thakur heset up the Department of Musicology at Benares Hindu University. From l954-56 he headedthe Library at Adyar and from there moved to the Institut Français d'Indologie at Pondicherry.In the 1950s he recorded music all over the world which was published by UNESCO in theirAtlas of World Music. Danielou was an honorary member of the International Music Counciland founded the Institutes of Comparative Music in Berlin in 1963 and Venice in 1970. In 991he was elected fellow of the Sangeet Natak Akademy and Emeritus Professor by the Senateof Berlin. Daniélou was an Officer of the Légion d'Honneur, Officer of the Ordre National duMérite, and Commander of Arts and Letters. In 1981, he received the Unesco/CIM prize formusic, in 1987 the "Kathmandu" medal from Unesco.
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