Dane Rudhyar

Dane Rudhyar, born Daniel Chennevière ( born March 23, 1895 in Paris, † September 13, 1985 in San Francisco), was a modern composer, painter and founder of humanistic astrology.

Due to ill health Rudhyar was not drafted in the First World War as a soldier. He could leave the country in 1917 in the United States. He first lived in New York and in 1976, for health reasons, in Palo Alto. In New York, he came in contact with theosophical circles. He married first psychological approaches to astrology, arguing that humanistic astrology.

Ruth Crawford Seeger He influenced, Carl Ruggles and Glenn Branca.

Importance

  • "With Dane Rudhyar we see astrology as an expression of an order of consciousness, with the aim of transformation from chaos to cosmos, from collective compulsive human nature for individual creative personality. " ( Wulfing von Rohr )

Compositions

  • Metachory 1917
  • Sinfonietta 1925
  • Surge of Fire
  • Tetra Grams
  • Advent
  • Crisis and Overcoming for the Kronos Quartet

Writings

  • The Astrology of Personality (1936 )
  • Claude Debussy and His Work ( 1913)
  • Dissonant Harmony ( 1928)
  • Rebirth of Hindu Music ( 1928)
  • The New Sense of Sound (1930 )
  • Astrological Zodiac and awareness ISBN 3880342407 (1984 )
  • The magic of sound ISBN 3-423-10860-6
  • Astrology of Personality ISBN 978-3-925100-63-5 (2001)
  • Astrology and Psyche ISBN 978-3-925100-10-9 (1990 )
  • The planets of personality ISBN 978-3-89997-123-1 (2005)
  • Esoteric Astrology ISBN 978-3-89997-134-7 (2006)
  • Astrological Aspects ISBN 978-3-89997-154-5 (2007)
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