Thomas de Hartmann

Thomas de HartmannBorn Thomas Alexandrovich de

HartmannSeptember 21, 1885Khoruzhivka, RussianEmpire, now Ukraine

Died March 28, 1956 (aged 70)New York City, New York,USA

Nationality RussianEthnicity CaucasianAlma mater Saint Petersburg

ConservatoryOccupation ComposerKnown for Setting Gurdjie's writing

to musicReligion Russian OrthodoxSpouse(s) Olga de Hartmann

Thomas de HartmannFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann(Russian: ;September 21, 1885 March 28, 1956)was a Russian composer and prominentstudent and collaborator of GeorgeGurdjie.

Contents1 Biography2 Association with Gurdjie3 Music4 Recordings5 References6 External links

BiographyThomas de Hartmann was born inKhoruzhivka, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire, now Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. Atthe age of 18 he received his diploma from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Hestudied conducting in Munich with Felix Mottl before World War I.Thomas de Hartmann was a graduate of the Imperial Conservatory of Music. Hestudied musical composition with three of the greatest Russian composers of the19th century: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anton Arensky and Sergei Taneyev. Hispiano teacher was Anna Yesipova, the second wife and former student of TheodorLeschetizky. Most of de Hartmann's compositions were for voice and piano. In1907, his ballet The Pink Flower, produced by Sergei Diaghilev with VaslavNijinsky and Tamara Karsavina in the cast, was presented at the Imperial Opera.The Tsar was so impressed that he himself granted de Hartmann exemption frommilitary duty so that he might study conducting in Munich.[1]In Munich, Thomas de Hartmann met the artist, former Su student and laterstage impresario, Alexander de Salzmann; they were both friends of Rainer MariaRilke and Wassily Kandinsky. Later, in Russia, after the beginning of World War I,

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de Hartmann would introduce de Salzmann to George Gurdjie.[2]Thomas married Olga Arkadievna de Schumacher, a celebrated opera singer; herfather was a high ocial in tsarist Russia.Thomas was the nephew of Eduard von Hartmann, the author of Philosophy of theUnconscious, a book published in Germany in 1869 but well known in Americaand England.[3]

Association with GurdjieDe Hartmann was already an acclaimed composer in Russia when he rst metGurdjie in 1916 in St. Petersburg. From 1917 to 1929 he was a pupil andcondant of Gurdjie. During that time, at Gurdjie's Institute for theHarmonious Development of Man near Paris, de Hartmann transcribed andco-wrote much of the music that Gurdjie collected and used for his movementsexercises.[4][5]De Hartmann wrote Our Life with Mr. Gurdjie together with his wife Olga deHartmann, who was Gurdjie's personal secretary for many years.De Hartmann died on March 28, 1956, in New York City, New York, USA, wherehe had moved to from France in 1950. After her husband's death, Olga collectedmany of Gurdjie's early talks in the book Views from the Real World (1973). Olgadied in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1979. Both are buried at the Princeton Cemetery,Princeton, New Jersey.

MusicDe Hartmann's four-act ballet La Fleurette Rouge (The Pink Flower) wasperformed in 1906. Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, and Michel Fokine dancedprincipal 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 Gurdjie was later adapted by Laurence Rosenthal forthe 1979 Peter Brook lm Meetings with Remarkable Men.In 1982, the Guggenheim Foundation premiere of Kandinsky's opera Der gelbeKlang was made possible thanks to a complete rearrangement by GuntherSchuller of de Hartmann's hitherto lost work. It is not known whether deHartmann completed a full score but it is clear why Constantin Stanislavski couldnot understand the work when de Hartmann proposed it for the Moscow Art


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Theater in 1914.[6]

RecordingsThe complete Piano Music of Georges I. Gurdjie and Thomas de Hartmann6-CD boxed set, [1] (http://www.harmonies.com/releases/19904-2.htm),Celestial Harmonies 19904-2The Music of Gurdjie/de Hartmann, three disc set, [2](http://www.triangleeditions.com/)Triangle Editions, TCD1001-1003, 1989

References^ Crunden, Robert Morse (2000). Body and soul: the making of American modernism(http://books.google.com/books?id=duhoC8Nr_Q4C&pg=PA408&dq=thomas+de+hartmann&lr=&cd=25#v=onepage&q=thomas%20de%20hartmann&f=false). Basic Books. p. 408. ISBN 0-465-01485-2."...Thomas de Hartmann had been an established composer in St. Petersburg"

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^ Lachman, Gary (2005). The dark muse. Basic Books. p. 240. ISBN 1-56025-656-4Check |isbn= value (help).

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^ von Hartmann, Eduard (1893). Philosophy of the Unconscious(http://books.google.com/books?id=_lzlKGEF9CwC&dq=Eduard+de+hartmann+Philosophy+of+the+Unconscious&lr=) (in German-English) I. K. Paul, Trench, Trbner & Co., Ltd. "Speculative results according to theinductive method of physical science"

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^ Gurdjie in Tbilisi - also Image of Thomas de Hartmann(http://digitalseance.wordpress.com/category/pd-ouspensky/)

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^ Nott, C.S. (1961). Teachings of Gurdjie - A Pupil's Journal (http://books.google.com/books?id=iafUAAAAMAAJ&q=Hartmann&dq=Nott+Gurdjie&cd=2). PenguinArkana. p. 9. ISBN 0-14-019156-9.

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^ Hines, Thomas Jensen (1991). Collaborative form: studies in the relations of thearts (http://books.google.com/books?id=ZxdYihH4GJYC&pg=PA99dq=thomas+de+hartmann&cd=2#v=onepage&q=tomas%20de%20hartmann&f=false). Kent State University Press. p. 99.ISBN 0-87338-417-2. "...to see the obscure stage work performed for the rst timeever..."

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External links


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Thomas de Hartmann: A Composers Life By John Mangan(http://www.gurdjie.org/mangan1.htm)Thomas de Hartmann page from Gurdjie International Review(http://www.gurdjie.org/hartmann.htm)Thomas de Hartmann (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0208830/) at theInternet Movie DatabaseThomas de Hartmann papers at Yale University Music Library(http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0046)Thomas de Hartmann grave at Princeton Cemetery(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_de_Hartmann_and_Olga_de_Hartmann_graves_at_Princeton_Cemetery..JPG)

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