{"id":2104,"date":"2026-01-12T08:01:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gurdjieffisrael.org\/?page_id=2104"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:03:48","slug":"gurdjieffs-music-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gurdjieffisrael.org\/en\/gurdjieffs-music-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gurdjieff&#8217;s music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\"><h1 class=\"fonts-plugin-block \" style=\"font-family: Varela Round;font-size: 22px;text-align: left;color: #8e8172\">Gurdjieff&#8217;s music<\/h1><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:400\"><strong>\u201cOur inner world is the soil where the seeds of art germinate. In these seeds lies the magic of life and from them grow works of art\u2026 Without them there is no art and no music.\u201d<\/strong><br>Thomas de Hartmann<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-6ee76cfc wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/gurdjieffisrael.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Thomas-de-Hartmann.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas de Hartmann\" class=\"wp-image-994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gurdjieffisrael.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Thomas-de-Hartmann.jpg 825w, https:\/\/gurdjieffisrael.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Thomas-de-Hartmann-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gurdjieffisrael.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Thomas-de-Hartmann-768x700.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align: left; margin-top: 2rem; margin-bottom: 0rem;\">\n  <audio controls>\n    <source src=\"https:\/\/gurdjieffisrael.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Thomas-De-Hartman-Song-of-the-Fisherwoman.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\">\n  <\/audio>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Thomas de Hartmann <\/strong>composer and pianist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\">The young Russian composer Thomas de Hartmann, in search of a spiritual teaching, came to Gurdjieff in 1916. He began by harmonizing, developing, and fully realizing Gurdjieff\u2019s music for the sacred dances, or Movements, which were an integral part of Gurdjieff\u2019s teaching. Some years later, de Hartmann collaborated on Gurdjieff\u2019s musical works that were independent of the Movements. Amazingly, these pieces, very considerable in number, were almost all composed between 1925 and 1927 at the Prieur\u00e9 in Fontainebleau, France.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\">Thomas de Hartmann wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:400\"><strong>&#8220;Georgi Ivanovich put always a great weight on music. He himself played and he also composed. After working with Georgi Ivanovich, we can better understand the role that music plays in religious ceremony. Music helps to concentrate oneself, to bring oneself to an inner state where we can receive the greatest possible emanations. That is why music helps you to see higher.<\/strong><br><br><strong>Mr. Gurdjieff\u2019s music had great variety. The most deeply moving was that which he remembered hearing in remote temples during his Asian travels. Listening to this music, one was touched to the depth of his being.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer ten-px-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-top:0\"><strong><strong>Laurence Rosenthal <\/strong><\/strong>composer and pianist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:400\"><strong>&#8220;What can we consider to be the purpose of Gurdjieff\u2019s music? Perhaps it is related to man\u2019s work on himself, what Gurdjieff called \u201charmonious development.\u201d He offered food for the growth of a man\u2019s being through the different sides of his nature: ideas for the mind, special exercises and dances for the body and mind together, and music as a way to awaken a sensitivity in the feelings, to arouse in the deeper level of the listener\u2019s interior world questions and intimations beyond words. And perhaps, in dissolving the barriers created by associations and conditioning, these sounds could bring the listener into closer contact with his own essential nature.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls src=\"https:\/\/gurdjieffisrael.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Larry-Rosenthal-Sayid-Chant-and-Dance-10.mp4-1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur inner world is the soil where the seeds of art germinate. 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