Petsche J. Gurdjieff and Music. The Gurdjieff/de Hartmann Piano Music and Its Esoteric Significance

Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 279 p. — (Aries Book Series: Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism 20).In Gurdjieff and Music Johanna Petsche examines the large and diverse body of piano music produced by Armenian-Greek spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff (c.1866-1949) in collaboration with his devoted pupil Thomas de Hartmann (1885-1956). Petsche draws on a range of unpublished materials and data from original field research to critically situate and assess this music within its socio-cultural and unique religio-spiritual.Introduction: Africana Esoteric Studies
Mapping a New EndeavorGurdjieff, His Music and Teaching
Music in the Biography of Gurdjieff
Music in the Biography of de Hartmann
The Collaboration
Sources and Styles
Sheet Music and Recordings
The Piano Music, Gurdjieff's Cosmology and Views on Art
Three Purposes of the Piano Music in Light of Gurdjieff’s Life Circumstances and Esoteric TeachingAppendix A: The Movements and Music for Movements
Appendix B: The Struggle of the Magicians
Appendix C: The Harmonium Music
Appendix D: Chronological Order of Compositions
Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Key Pupils