GROSSET, Joanny. Lyon (Rhône) 29.3.1862 — 1931. French Pioneer of the Study of Indian Music. From the university of Lyon, a student of Regnaud (who wrote the Preface to the 1898 book). Licencié-ès-lettres. Unfortunately, he shared some ideas of his time, looking for “pure, original Aryan music”. He gave ideas about Indian music to Messiaen.

Publications: Contribution à l’étude de la Musique Hindoue. 90 p. Mélanges de philol. indo-europ. 6. P. 1888 (with Nāṭyaśāstra 28 edited and translated).

– Edited Bhâratîya-Nâṭya-Çâstram. Traité de Bharata sur le théatre. 1. 12+33+280+7 p. Ann. de l’Univ. de Lyon 40. P. & Lyon 1898 (ch. 1-14).

– “Inde. Histoire de la musique depuis l’origine jusqu’à nos jours”, A. Lavignac (ed.), Encyclop. de la musique. 1. P. 1913, 257-376.

Sources: Catal. gén. de la Libr. fr. 14, 1891–1899, P. 1901; N.U.C.; stray notes in Internet. While other sources just mention his publications, P. Asimov, “The Melakartas and the ‘République Modale’: Naturalizing Indian Scales in French Musical Modernism”, Journal of the Royal Musical Association 149, 2024, 383-439 (esp. p. 400) finally brought his death year and some further information.