Thomas de Hartmann

Thomas de Hartmann ( born February 19, 1885 in Choruschiwka, today in the Oblast Sumy, Ukraine, † March 28, 1956 in New York City ) was a Russian composer and a musical companion of Georges Gurdjieff.

Life

Thomas Alexandrovich Hartmann was born to Russian parents in Ukraine. He graduated in 1904 from his studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied composition and piano at Anna Nikolaevna Jessipowa. After that he lived from 1908 to 1912 in Munich and studied conducting with Felix Mottl. In Munich he had in 1909 joined the New Artists' Association ( NKVM ) from which he resigned together with Franz Marc and Kandinsky. The two enlisted his cooperation on Almanac of the editorial " The Blue Rider", for which he received the contribution of L. Sabaneyev "Prometheus Scriabin " translated with Kandinsky. He himself wrote the article "On Anarchy in Music". For Kandinsky's stage composition " The Yellow Sound ", which was also printed in the " Blue Rider ", he had " taken the musical part. "

Kandinsky Hartmann and Hugo Ball had brought together, told Ball: " He came from Moscow and told a lot of new by Stanislavsky. How to play there under the influence of Indian studies Andreyev and Chekhov "

Gurdjieff

Hartmann met Gurdjieff for the first time in 1916 in St. Petersburg and became his student, and was until 1929 a close confidant. Hartmann married 1920, the Russian Olga Schumacher, who was the personal secretary of Gurdjieff. In Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in Fontainebleau, near Paris, he composed and arranged much of the music that Gurdjieff had put together to use them at his dance exercises. Gurdjieff, who was not able to record his tunes, they played de Hartmann on the hand operated harmonium before, or he hummed or whistled, where he also modified the default again in the repetition. The couple was also later connected with Gurdjieff. Thomas de Hartmann prepared speech before 1949, the grave and composed a piano cycle entitled " Five volumes - Gurdjieff in memory ". 1951 the couple immigrated to the United States, Olga died in 1979 in Santa Fe ( New Mexico).

Music

Hartmann wrote 1906 four-act ballet " La Fleurette Rouge ", and later the Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlovna Pavlova and Michel Fokine in Moscow and St. Petersburg appeared with the.

He wrote music for Alexander Sacharoff and was the composer for Wassily Kandinsky's The Yellow Sound. Thereafter Hartmann had " submitted the piece with his music and with designs the equipment to the Moscow Art Theatre, but even they could not understand it and did not take it on. These sketches and my music - everything was lost in the Revolution "The play with music by Hartmann was in the musical reconstruction of Gunther Schuller in only on 9 February 1982 ' premiered City Marymount Manhattan Theatre" in New York.

After time with Gurdjieff, he wrote a large number of compositions in an eclectic style, including symphonies and operas. As a livelihood he wrote under the name " Th Kross Hartmann " and under pseudonyms for nearly fifty films the music.

His music was 1979 for the composer Laurence Rosenthal the foundation in Peter Brooks film adaptation of Gurdjeffs autobiography Meetings with Remarkable Men

Photography

About a photo from the 1911 /12 Maria and Franz Marc, Bernhard Koehler, Henry Campendonck, Thomas Hartmann and Wassily Kandinsky has the Gabriele Münter - and Johannes Eichner -Stiftung, Munich.

Music recordings

  • The Music of Gurdjieff / de Hartmann, three disc set, Triangle Records, TCD1001 -1003, 1989
  • Gurdjieff - de Hartmann, Music composed in collaboration by GIGurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann, piano: Herbert Henk. Radio Bremen, Nov. 1981. Wergo Schallplatten GmbH Mainz 1982

Writings

  • Th v. Hartmann, about anarchy in the music, Munich 1912: Kandinsky / Franz Marc:. Der Blaue Reiter, Piper, Munich 1912 documentary edition by Klaus Lankheit (1965). Piper Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-24121-2
  • Views from the Real World (1973).
  • Our life with Mr. Gurdjieff, San Francisco et al Harper & Row 1983

Olga de Hartmann

  • Literature by and about Olga de Hartmann in the catalog that German national library
  • Thomas C. Daly and Thomas AG Daly, On Olga de Hartmann, short biography and photographs in Gurdjieff International Review 1992
Sumy Oblast Leonid Sabaneyev Constantin Stanislavski Leonid Andreyev Santa Fe (New Mexico) Anna Pavlova Alexander Sakharoff Film score Princeton (New Jersey) Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann Integrated Authority File
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