Thomas de Hartmann
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| Thomas de Hartman | |
| Born | Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartman September 21, 1885 Khoruzhivka, east of Kiev, Ukraine |
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| Died | March 28, 1956 (aged 70) New York City, New York, USA |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Ethnicity | Caucasian |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg Conservatory |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Spouse(s) | Olga de Hartmann |
Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann (September 21, 1885 – March 28, 1956) was a Russian composer and prominent student and collaborator of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff.
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[edit] Biography
Thomas de Hartmann was born in Khoruzhivka, east of Kiev, Ukraine. At the age of 18 he received his diploma from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He studied conducting in Munich with Felix Mottl before World War I.
[edit] Association with Gurdjieff
Thomas de Hartmann was already an acclaimed composer in Russia when he first met Gurdjieff in 1916 in St. Petersburg. From 1917 to 1929 he was a pupil and confidant of Gurdjieff. During that time, at Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man near Paris, de Hartmann transcribed and co-wrote much of the music that Gurdjieff collected and used for his movements exercises [1]. De Hartmann wrote Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff together with his wife Olga de Hartmann, who was Gurdjieff's personal secretary for many years.
Thomas de Hartmann died on 28 March 1956, in New York City, New York, USA. After her husband's death, Olga collected many of Gurdjieff's early talks in the book Views from the Real World (1973). Olga died in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1979.
[edit] Music
De Hartmann’s four-act ballet La Fleurette Rouge was performed in 1906. Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, and Michel Fokine were principal roles in performances at the Imperial opera houses of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
He composed the music for Wassily Kandinsky's The Yellow Sound.
The music he wrote with Gurdjieff was later adapted for the 1979 Peter Brook film Meetings with Remarkable Men by Laurence Rosenthal.
[edit] Recordings
- The Music of Gurdjieff/de Hartmann, Three Disc Set, Triangle Records, TCD1001-1003, 1989
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Thomas de Hartmann: A Composer’s Life By John Mangan
- Thomas de Hartmann page from Gurdjieff International Review
- Thomas de Hartmann at the Internet Movie Database
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