Tsar Nicolas II, after attending La Fleurette Rouge, allowed Thomas de Hartmann to defer military service to pursue a full-time music career.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Thomas de Hartmann was deeply influenced by painter Wassily Kandinsky's quest for abstraction and belief that musical pitches had exact color equivalents.
Composition History
At age eleven, Thomas de Hartmann began formal music training as a composition student of Anton Arensky, a renowned former professor at the Moscow Conservatory.
Composer Biography
Thomas de Hartmann and his wife Olga lived under the spiritual tutelage of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, a nomadic Georgian mystic, for twelve years.
Composer Biography
Thomas de Hartmann's four-act ballet La Fleurette Rouge was performed in Imperial opera houses with famous dancers Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, and Michel Fokine.
Compositional Technique
Thomas de Hartmann became a 'poly-stylist,' blending Russian Romanticism, Impressionism, Modernism, Eastern music, jazz, bitonality, and film music into his compositions.
Composer Biography
Thomas de Hartmann, born in Ukraine to Russian aristocrats, showed musical talent by improvising melodies before age five.
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