The Guardian about Georges Gurdjieff

The Guardian has published a report about the Armenian born musician and spiritual teacher, Georges Gurdjieff.

Gurdjieff is best known as a mystic and spiritual teacher, but he was also a musician who composed by dictating to his pupil, the Russian pianist Thomas de Hartmann, says the report.

According to the author Keith Jarrett helped revive international interest in Gurdjieff's work with his Sacred Hymns album, in 1980, though this set presents his music in a very different setting.

The Armenian born musician is thought to have drawn his inspiration from the songs he heard on his travels through the Middle East and Central Asia.

The paper further says the Ensemble directed by Armenian musician Levon Eskenian has released a CD contained selected pieces relate to folk songs or sacred songs that have their roots in Armenia, or neighbouring regions, and that they are performed by leading Armenian folk musicians.