Thomas de Hartmann

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Thomas de Hartmann (born February 19, 1885 in Choruschiwka , Russian Empire ; died March 28, 1956 in New York City ) was a Russian composer and a musical companion of Georges Gurdjieff .

Life

Thomas Alexandrowitsch von Hartmann was born to Russian parents in the Ukraine. He graduated from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1904 , where he studied composition and piano with Anna Nikolajewna Jessipowa . He then lived in Munich from 1908 to 1912 and studied conducting with Felix Mottl . In Munich he joined the New Artists' Association (NKVM) in 1909 , from which he then left together with Franz Marc and Kandinsky . The two advertised his collaboration on the editors' almanac “ Der Blaue Reiter ”, for which he and Kandinsky translated L. Sabaneev's contribution “Prometheus von Scriabin” . He himself wrote the contribution "On Anarchy in Music". For Kandinsky's stage composition "The Yellow Sound", which was also printed in the "Blauer Reiter", he "took over the musical part."

Kandinsky had brought Hartmann and Hugo Ball together, Ball reported: "He came from Moscow and told us a lot of new things about Stanislawsky : how to play Andreyev and Chekhov there under the influence of Indian studies ."

Gurdjieff

Olga and Thomas de Hartmann's graves in Princeton

Hartmann met Gurdjieff for the first time in St. Petersburg in 1916 and became his student and was a close confidante until 1929. Hartmann married the Russian Olga von Schumacher in 1920, who became Gurdjieff's personal secretary. In Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in Fontainebleau near Paris, he composed and arranged a large part of the music that Gurdjieff had put together for use in his dance exercises. Gurdjieff, who was unable to write down his melodies, played them to de Hartmann on a hand-operated harmonium , or he hummed or whistled, changing the default when he repeated. The couple remained connected to Gurdjieff later. Thomas de Hartmann prepared the eulogy in 1949 and composed a piano cycle entitled "Five volumes - Gurdjieff for memory". In 1951 the couple emigrated to the USA, Olga died in 1979 in Santa Fe (New Mexico) .

music

In 1906 Hartmann wrote the four-act ballet La Fleurette Rouge , with which the Russian dancers Vaslav Nijinsky , Anna Pawlowna Pawlowa and Michel Fokine later performed in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

He wrote music for Alexander Sacharoff and was the composer for Wassily Kandinsky's The Yellow Sound . Afterwards Hartmann “ submitted the piece with its music and with drafts for the equipment to the Moscow Art Theater , but they too could not understand it and did not accept it. These sketches and my music - everything was lost in the revolution ”The piece with the music of Hartmann was premiered on February 9, 1982 in the musical reconstruction by Gunther Schuller in the“ Marymount Manhattan Theater ”in New York City.

After his 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 the music for almost fifty films under pseudonyms .

In 1979, his music was the basis for the composer Laurence Rosenthal in Peter Brook's film adaptation of Gurdjieff's autobiography Meetings with Remarkable Men .

photography

A photo from 1911 shows Maria and Franz Marc, Bernhard Koehler , Heinrich Campendonk , Thomas de Hartmann and Wassily Kandinsky.

Music recordings

  • The Complete Piano Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann. Cecil Lytle, piano. six CDs. Celestial Harmonies, 19904-2, 1987-1990.
  • The Music of Gurdjieff / de Hartmann, three CDs, Triangle Records, TCD1001-1003, 1989.
  • Gurdjieff - de Hartmann , music composed in collaboration with Georges I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann. Herbert Henk, piano. Radio Bremen, November 1981. Wergo Schallplatten GmbH Mainz 1982.
  • Hidden Sources - Gurdjieff, De Hartmann , by Alessandra Celletti (Kha Records 1998)

Fonts

  • Th. V. Hartmann: About anarchy in music . Munich 1912 In: Kandinsky, Franz Marc: Der Blaue Reiter . Piper, Munich 1912. New 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: Harper & Row, 1983
    • Expeditions into the wonderful - our life with Mr. Gurdjieff . Xanten: Chalice, 2019, ISBN 978-3-942914-39-0

Olga de Hartmann

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The biographical data are in Klaus Lankheit, Der Blaue Reiter , p. 331, slightly different: Place of death: Princeton (New Jersey) , place of the diploma examination: Moscow Conservatory . The spelling of the name " Гартман, Фома Александрович ", "Foma Alexandrowitsch Gartmann" as "von Hartmann" or "de Hartmann" is decided here after his stay in Paris, which was from 1922 to 1951. The Finnish Wikipedia assumes a relationship to Eduard from Hartmann .
  2. ^ Lankheit, p. 332.
  3. ↑ So the announcement in the text, see Lankheit, p. 210.
  4. ↑ Ball cited in Lankheit, p. 283.
  5. ↑ "Olga de Shumacher", born August 28, 1885 in St. Petersburg, see short biography
  6. ↑ Gurdjieff dance see English Wikipedia en: Gurdjieff movements and the references given there, as well as Gurdjieff in Tbilisi - there also a picture by Thomas de Hartmann
  7. ↑ Ulrich Olshausen: The sound of a philosophy . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 3, 2012, p. Z5.
  8. ↑ Herbert Henck ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.bremen.de
  9. ↑ The yellow sound see Wikipedia en: The Yellow Sound
  10. ↑ Lt. Lankheit, p. 295.
  11. ^ Theater: Staging a Kandinsky Dream , The New York Times, February 7, 1982.
  12. ↑ Hartmann's biography at Elan Sicroff ( memento of the original from March 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sicroff.com
  13. ↑ Meetings with Remarkable Men see Wikipedia en: Meetings with Remarkable Men
  14. ↑ Thomas de Hartmann: A Composer's Life , sicroff.com
  15. ↑ The Complete Piano Music of Gurdjieff and De Hartmann (6 CD Boxed Set) on harmonies.com ; accessed on January 14, 2015.
  16. ^ Hidden Sources, cos la critica. Retrieved December 24, 2017 .
  17. ↑ in the table of contents: Thomas v. Hartmann, On Anarchy in Music
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Thomas de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartmann, Thomas von; Hartmann, Thomas Alexandrowitsch; Гартман, Фома Александрович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Khorushivka
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1956
Place of death New York City