Alain Daniélou (1907–1994), French historian, intellectual, musicologist and Indologist
•
Jean Daniélou (1905–1974), theologian, historian, cardinal and a member of the Académie française
The young Daniélou studied singing under the famous Charles Panzéra, as well as classical dancing with Nicholas Legat (teacher of Vaslav Nijinsky), and composition with Max d'Ollone.
The introduction of humorous elements suggest that it may originally have been written as a spoof (Danielou 1985).
Michel Geiss, :fr:Christian Braut and Philippe Monsire built the Semantic Daniélou, a 36-tone (out of 53 just intonation notes listed in the book "Sémantique Musicale" by Alain Daniélou) electronic instrument, on behalf of the author, using staggered square key button keyboards from two Cavagnolo Midy 20 master keyboards, where each parallel row of keys offers a transposition by one comma.