Activities
Main aim of the foundation
The Foundation has as its non-profit aim, the support and realisation of all actions of general interest in the field of culture, education and musicology, in particular to contribute to the preservation, dissemination and promotion of the musical and philosophical works of Mir Pyaromir Maheboob Khan (1887 – 1948), composer of an Indian and English vocal repertoire, hugely successful at the time though never commercialised for large scale public performance. He resided in France between 1912 – 1914 and again, at Suresnes between 1922 – 1939. He became chief representative of the international Sufi movement from 1927 to 1948.
This French focus and cultural orientation and particularly its musical dimension, also accounts for the inclusion in the present framework of the chamber music of a member of the now extinct French branch of the van Goens family: Daniel Francois Van Goens (1958 – 1904), a french composer and cellist of Dutch origin, who lived at Viroflay and gained wide recognition in his time. The Foundation intends to preserve and to resume the performance of his musical works.
The Foundation therefore regards itself as a ‘Depot de musiques oubliees’.