The Actual Composers

The Gurdjieff/de Hartmann music for the Movements has been privately published on two occasions. First, around 1954, when de Hartmann published his three selections, all copies of his own hand-written manuscripts. In 1990, Triangle Editions, New York, published all of the Gurdjieff/de Hartmann music for the Movements for which the notes for performance still existed. They presented the entire collection in two volumes; the first containing the works by Gurdjieff and de Hartmann, the second those composed by de Hartmann alone. This was a valuable effort that could have ended a lot of confusion, if only the circulation of these books had not been so extremely limited.
Many CD's dedicated to the Gurdjieff/de Hartmann music continue to ascribe one or more of their pieces to Gurdjieff that were not actually composed by him. One of these CD's even presents 37 pieces as such, the vast majority of which Gurdjieff had not even heard, let alone composed. It seems necessary to draw a line between Gurdjieff's collaborations with Thomas de Hartmann and works by other composers, including those made by de Hartmann after Gurdjieff's death.