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Anja Lechner and Vassilis Tsabropoulos
Chants, Hymns and Dances
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Armenian-born philosopher Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (c. ) traveled widely in the Caucasus, the Near East, and Central Asia on a spiritual quest chronicled in his "Meetings with Remarkable Men." Ending his wandering in the s, Gurdjieff settled in the City of Light and gathered adherents (many of them writers, artists, dancers and musicians), presiding over his Paris compound as an avatar, composer and teacher of "temple dances" intended to induce a deeper spiritual awareness in his followers.

Gurdjieff, who sang in a Russian Orthodox Church choir as a youth, would hum or whistle brief passages recalled from his travels, and his musical associate, Ukrainian-born pianist Thomas Alexandrovich Hartmann, would notate and develop the fragments into coherent melodies intended for improvisation. First meeting in St. Petersburg in , they worked together for a dozen years, in a partnership deepened via Hartmann's exposure to Armenian folk music at Gurdjieff's urging.

Their collaboration produced a body of work little known outside Gurdjieff devotional circles. Shortly after the master's death, Hartmann privately recorded some of their work from the mids. Gurdjieff Society members in London later intro