Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (died 1949) was a spiritual teacher born in Alexandropol, today Gyumri in Armenia. In 1922 he set up his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at the Prieuré near Fontainebleau, where pupils learned his sacred dances, known as the Movements. His music is known through the composer Thomas de Hartmann, who in the mid-1920s wrote down and arranged for piano the melodies Gurdjieff gave him. Gurdjieff died at Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris. Celestial Harmonies issued The Complete Piano Music of Georges I.