Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff

Author Name:

Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff

Born As:

Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff

Other Names:

Born:

13 Jan 1866

Died:

29 Oct 1949




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Mystic and spiritual teacher                          
Selected Works:

Books:

The Herald of Coming Good by G. I. Gurdjieff - 1933, 1971, 1988

All and Everything trilogy:
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by G. I. Gurdjieff - 1950
Meetings with Remarkable Men by G. I. Gurdjieff - 1963
Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am' by G. I. Gurdjieff - 1974

Views from the Real World gathered talks of G. I. Gurdjieff by his pupil Olga de Hartmann- 1973

Music:


The Gurdjieff music divides into three distinct periods:

The first period includes music from the ballet "Struggle of the Magicians" and music for early Movements, dating to the years around 1918.

The second period music, written in collaboration with Russian composer Thomas de Hartmann, is described as the Gurdjieff-de Hartmann music. 

The last musical period is the improvised harmonium music 
In all, Gurdjieff in collaboration with de Hartmann composed some 200 pieces.                          
                          
                          
Gurdjieff’s passport states that he was born November 28, 1877.