Album Mezzo secolo
In Europe once more after nearly 20 years in India, the Indianist and musicologist Alain Daniélou found a large 11-hectare property for his friend, the Swiss photographer Raymond Burnier, at Colle Labirinto, Zagarolo, where Burnier came to live in 1958 after his divorce. Mrs. Burnier went on to become the international chairman of the Theosophical Society, which she still directs.
In 196O Alain Daniélou purchased two cottages on a much smaller piece of land, right beside the Burnier property. He only lived there permanently starting from 1980, when he retired as director of the institutes of comparative music studies he had set up at Venice and in Berlin.
