The value of the Movements music

Apart from the fact that the music for the Movements represents a substantial part of all of Gurdjieff's musical works, nobody has ever sufficiently emphasised that virtually all the music composed by him before 1924, was made for the Movements. All the dates supplied by de Hartmann in his autobiography as well as the dates on his manuscripts confirm this. (The compositions before 1924 include fragments from The Struggle of the Magicians, The Initiation of a Priestess -maybe his most ambitious and surely his longest composition- and The Great Prayer, a piece without equal in this oeuvre. It is true that this music is best appreciated by experiencing the Movement for which it was composed or, even better, by participating in their performance. Nonetheless, it seemed appropriate to present this music independently and let it speak with its own voice.