Thomas and Olga de Hartmann
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Thomas and Olga de Hartmann were Russian students of the Greek-Armenian mystic G. I. Gurdjieff.
Born in the Ukraine, Thomas de Hartmann was already an acclaimed composer in Russia when he first met Gurdjieff. 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.
De Hartmann's music was later adapted for the 1979 Peter Brook film Meetings with Remarkable Men by Laurence Rosenthal.
De Hartmann wrote Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff together with his wife Olga de Hartmann who was Gurdjieff's personal secretary for many years. After her husband's death, Olga collected many of Gurdjieff's early talks in the book Views from the Real World (1973).
[edit] External links
- Gurdjieff Legacy
- IMDB page for "Meetings with Remarkable Men", co-credit (with Laurence Rosenthal) for original filmscore
- Thomas de Hartmann page from Gurdjieff International Review
- Larry Rosenthal, author/composer, "The Sound of Gurdjieff"
- Gurdjieff Albuquerque
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