Glenn Gould
Glenn Herbert Gould [ gu: ld ] (born September 25, 1932 in Toronto , Ontario , Canada; † October 4, 1982 ibid) was a Canadian pianist , composer , organist and music author. He is best known for his Bach recordings.
Life
Glenn Gould was the only child of his parents Russell Herbert ("Bert") Gold (1901-1996) and Florence ("Flora") Emma Gold (1891-1975), née Grieg. The surname Gold was changed to Gould in 1939. His father was an amateur violinist and his mother a pianist and organist. Florence Gould was distantly related to the composer Edvard Grieg , who had been her grandfather's cousin. Gould learned to play the piano and read music from his mother, who wanted her child to be a musician, and taught Glenn for seven years from the age of three . She expected him to sing while playing. Later he found it very difficult to break this habit.
education
From the age of ten he attended the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. There he studied piano with Alberto Guerrero , organ with Frederick C. Silvester and music theory with Leo Smith . Guerrero's students learned a special technique of piano playing. This touch technique is about sensitizing the fingertips by pressing down the playing finger with one finger of the other hand and then releasing it again. The aim is to create the feeling that the keys are being pulled up, with the springing back of the key playing the central role. So it's more about letting go of the button. That also makes sense with regard to the duration of the individual notes, which is what makes Gould's playing so special. With this type of tapping , the finger of the other hand corresponds when it is pulled upwards, pulling the ensemble upwards, with the weighting of the respective key. In addition, Guerrero sat very low at the piano and close to the keys, which Gould also did, so as an adult he always took a piano chair with a seat height of 33 cm with him when he performed. A normal piano chair is 51 to 60 cm high. The original of the chair is in the Library of Toronto.
Concert life
His international breakthrough came in 1955 with his US debut in New York . The next day, a producer from Columbia Records invited him to a record recording in his studio. The famous first studio recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations was made (a live recording of the work recorded by the Canadian broadcasting company CBC in 1954 was only released on CD decades later). Gould stayed with the label for the rest of his life. Between 1955 and 1964, Gould performed extensively in North America and Europe. In 1957 he performed for two weeks in the Soviet Union , where he was deeply moved by the enthusiasm of his audience.
Studio life
Increasingly, however, he grew tired of performing in concerts, as he considered the performance of a single artist in front of a large number of people as unworthy of the artist and unsuitable for the music. From 1964 he concentrated entirely on the electronic media and did not give a single public concert until his death. There were also numerous sound recordings for CBS ; for CBC he produced sound and film recordings as well as three documentary radio plays. Gould was very interested in the recording process and therefore had his own recording studio, in which he researched the effects of cutting together a recording from numerous versions (" takes ") on the musical argument. Over time, Gould became more and more addicted to control, so that even newspaper and television interviews were written word for word by himself. Gould's way of working in the recording studio was documented in 2017 in the edition Glenn Gould — The Goldberg Variations: The Complete Unreleased Recording Sessions June 1955 , produced by Robert Russ . The set contains the complete recording sessions for his debut album with the Goldberg Variations, including discussions with producer Howard H. Scott.
Private life
From 1967 to 1972 he lived with the Canadian painter Cornelia Foss, wife of the composer and conductor Lukas Foss , who was admired by Gould , and their two children in Toronto. In the 1970s he had a working and love relationship with the soprano Roxolana Roslak .
In 1982, just a few months after his second studio recording of the Goldberg Variations was released and nine days after his 50th birthday, Gould died of complications from a stroke . He could no longer witness the success of this second recording. Gould is buried with his parents in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in his hometown of Toronto.
repertoire
Gould's recordings focus on the Baroque , Classical and Classical Modern periods . This includes almost the entire piano works by Johann Sebastian Bach , most of the Beethoven and all Mozart sonatas , the entire piano works by Arnold Schönberg , Anton Webern and Alban Berg, as well as all sonatas for piano and for winds with piano accompaniment by Paul Hindemith .
Gould's sometimes sharply articulated game is controversial. While this type of interpretation was very successful in baroque music as a harpsichord imitation, his x-ray-like dissected Mozart sonatas were largely rejected by the critics. Gould, who once called himself “the last Puritan” half-jokingly, had a difficult relationship with the Romantic composers and their works, because he saw the structural element of music too neglected in the works of this musical epoch. However, some recordings of romantic music exist, such as B. ten intermezzi, four ballads and two rhapsodies by Johannes Brahms , five songs without words by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , the piano sonata No. 3 in B minor by Frédéric Chopin (whose music he actually rejected, just like the Robert Schumanns ), piano sonatas by Alexander Scriabin as well as piano music, songs and the melodrama Enoch Arden by Richard Strauss and, last but not least, the recording of the legendary performance of the 1st Piano Concerto by Johannes Brahms with Leonard Bernstein at the conductor's desk. Gould recorded the little-known Variations Chromatiques Op. 3 from Georges Bizet , together with the Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 7 by Edvard Grieg . In addition, Gould played Wagner's Siegfried Idyll with an orchestra , which he also recorded for the concert grand piano along with a few other transcriptions of Wagner's works . This type of recording also includes the transcriptions of Beethoven's 5th and 6th symphonies by Franz Liszt (he also had a strong aversion to his own works), which he made in 1968 for Columbia Records (5th symphony) and Canadian radio ( 6th Symphony) recorded on phonograms.
Gould's interpretations
Gould did not want to achieve romantic effects in his interpretations. For example, he played baroque music strictly rhythmically, which he was often accused of by critics. The Financial Times music critic Dominic Gill wrote in 1970 in his tribute to the remake of Gould's 1955 Goldberg recording:
One [critic] went so far as to compare Gould to the Moog electronic synthesizer , while others looked for terms like "clinical" or "icy". If you listen to the recording today, none of these comparisons or adjectives seem to apply and do justice to the matter. We can only speak of eccentric insofar as fast tempos are sometimes set very, very quickly and slow ones very slowly; but the textures are always so crystal clear that they make you forget about the most dangerous speeds. It is also evidence of remarkable insight and poetry of a cool, brilliant simplicity that in no way precludes gentleness.
It was also the recordings of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach that mainly established its validity, which continues to this day. But he also distinguished himself as an interpreter of Ludwig van Beethoven's works , which in his recordings are partly youthful and impetuous, partly reflective and atmospheric. He was also known as a Schönberg interpreter.
His disrespectful relationship with some composers like Beethoven and especially Mozart is known. Gould presented a controversial complete recording of Mozart's piano sonatas. He described Mozart as a moderately talented composer who died too late rather than too early. Glenn Gould later confirmed this provocative statement in an interview with Bruno Monsaingeon in 1976 , but emphasized the quality of the early work and described KV 284 as his favorite sonata. Joachim Kaiser considered this statement frivolous with regard to Mozart's important late works such as the Magic Flute , but explained it by saying that the young Mozart, as a form innovator, was significantly more courageous than later.
Gould did not see himself as a purely reproductive interpreter, but rather as a creative, music-making composer. This is ultimately the reason for his efforts to perform familiar music in an often unfamiliar way. His aim was to uncover facets of music that were neglected by tradition. This also explains his preference for less popular music such as that of Bach, which, due to its complexity, only became popular with broad audiences late on. Gould did not try to bring this music closer to the audience through interpretive approaches to the popular romantic repertoire, as usual, but dared to play baroque music in all its peculiarities lively and without academic rigor, always precisely and in a controlled manner.
The soft but audible hum is a typical element of Gould's piano recordings. It can be heard on many of his recordings, especially on his second recording of the Goldberg Variations . Gould said in an interview that he sees humming along as more of a annoying habit. Nevertheless, he feared that if he shed his quirk, his piano playing would suffer. His choice of extremely faster (and sometimes unusually slower) tempos was often controversial . His playing technique allowed him a transparency that emphasized the polyphonic context of the music. However, Gould also showed a romantic side in his Brahms recordings (Intermezzi, Vier Balladen).
Radio documentaries and writings
Less well known than his music recordings are Gould's radio documentaries for the CBC , which have received many critical acclaim. The Solitude Trilogy , a series of three radio plays about life north of the Arctic Circle, deserves special mention . It consists of the first part, The Idea of North , which is about the north and its inhabitants, The Latecomers , a program about Newfoundland , and The Quiet in the Land , a radio play about the Mennonites in Manitoba . All parts of the Solitude Trilogy use a technique that Gould himself called " contrapuntal radio". Several people speak at the same time, but not at random. The meaning of what is said by each person complements each other - similar to the voices of a fugue . Gould's co-producer on these documentaries, Lorne Tulk, once said that Gould developed this technique on The Idea of North out of a certain emergency. The show was only allowed to last 60 minutes, but Gould had material for another 14 minutes that he was keen to use. This is how he, who greatly valued the compositional techniques of the Baroque , came up with the idea of treating what was spoken like contrapuntal music. Gould's writings have been collected in two volumes, also in German. Solitude Trilogy was inducted into The Wire's 100 Records That Set The World On Fire (While No One Was Listening) .
Compositions
- String Quartet op.1
- So you want to write a fugue? for four voices and string quartet
- Piano sonata (unfinished)
- Sonata for bassoon and piano
- Two pieces for piano (1951/52)
- Five short pieces for piano (1951)
- Lieberson madrigal
- Cadenzas for Beethoven's First Piano Concerto
Awards and honors
- 1969: Molson Prize
- 1983: Posthumous induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame
- 1990: Gold record for the album Goldberg Variations in Switzerland
- 1997: The Glenn Gould School - renaming of the Royal Conservatory of Music Professional School , founded in 1987 , a division of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto for advanced students and professional musicians, in honor of Glenn Gould, who himself studied at the Toronto Conservatory
Fonts
- John PL Roberts (Ed.): Letters . Piper, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-492-22939-5 .
- Hans-Joachim Metzger (translator): From Bach to Boulez . In: Tim Page (ed.): Writings on music . tape 1 . Piper, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-492-23614-6 .
- From the concert hall to the recording studio . In: Tim Page (ed.): Writings on music . tape 2 . Piper, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-492-23615-4 .
Biographies and related matters
- Kevin Bazzana: Wondrous strange: the life and art of Glenn Gould . Oxford University Press, New York 2004, ISBN 0-19-517440-2 .
- Kevin Bazzana: Glenn Gould: The Biography . Edition with CD. Schott, Mainz 2006, ISBN 978-3-7957-0570-1 .
- Kevin Bazzana: Glenn Gould or the Art of Interpretation . Bärenreiter Metzler, Kassel 2001, ISBN 978-3-7618-1492-5 .
- Jonathan Cott, Glenn Gould: Telephone conversations with Glenn Gould . Alexander-Verl, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89581-296-5 .
- Otto Friedrich: Glenn Gould: a biography . 1st edition. Wunderlich, Reinbek 1991, ISBN 3-8052-0513-9 .
- Glenn Gould: a life in pictures . Nicolai, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-87584-475-0 .
- Katie Hafner: Romance with a Tripod: Glenn Gould's obsessive search for the perfect piano . 1st edition. Schott, Mainz 2009, ISBN 978-3-7957-0657-9 .
- Andrew Kazdin: Glenn Gould: a portrait . Schweizer Verlagshaus, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-7263-6631-8 .
- Malcolm Lester: Glenn Gould: a life in pictures . Doubleday, Toronto 2002, ISBN 0-385-65903-2 .
- Glenn Gould, John McGreevy (Eds.): Glenn Gould Variations, By Himself and his Friends . 1st edition. Doubleday, Toronto 1983, ISBN 0-385-18995-8 (second book published on Gould; contains writings by Gould himself, not yet available in book form at the time, and by companions).
- Geoffrey Payzant: Glenn Gould: Music and Mind . 6th edition. Key Porter, Toronto 1997, ISBN 978-1-55013-858-0 (the first biography; published during Gould's lifetime).
- Michael Stegemann: Glenn Gould: Life and Work . Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-25056-6 .
- Michael Stegemann: The Glenn Gould Trilogy - One Life. (Radio play, biography, audio book, music and original sounds), 3 CDs, 230 minutes, Sony Classical, in German and English.
- Sandrine Revel: Glenn Gould - life off-beat . Ed .: Anja Kootz. German first edition edition. Knesebeck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86873-750-9 .
Literary representations
- Thomas Bernhard : The loser . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1983, ISBN 978-3-518-37997-4 .
- James Strecker: Variations on Genius (a cycle of poems about Glenn Gould, to be read in the Glenn Gould Archive, see web links).
- Attila Csampai (ed.): Glenn Gould: photographic suites . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-88814-736-0 .
- Jean-Yves Clément: Glenn Gould or the inner piano. Translator: Maja Ueberle-Pfaff. Photos Don Hunstein. Free Spiritual Life , Stuttgart 2017
Movies
- Glenn Gould - The Alchemist. TV portrait, Canada, 1974/2002, interview: Bruno Monsaingeon , director: François-Louis Ribadeau, 17 video clips
- Cities - Glenn Gould's Toronto. City portrait, Canada, 1979, director: John McGreevy, book: Glenn Gould, 49 minutes
- Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Feature film, Canada, 1993, 98 min., Written and directed by François Girard, ( Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould in the Internet Movie Database )
- Glenn Gould: Beyond Time. (Original title: Au delà du temps. ) Documentary film, France, Canada 2005, 106 min., Written and directed by Bruno Monsaingeon
- Glenn Gould. Genius and passion. (OT: Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould. ) Documentary film, Canada, Germany, 2009, 84 min., Script and director: Michèle Hozer, Peter Raymont, production: White Pine Pictures, ZDF , summary Toronto International Film festival
Chronological list of Glenn Gould's recordings
The studio recordings from 1956–1982.
| year | title | Recorded | Label, serial number |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Bach: The Goldberg Variations | 10-16 June 1955 at the CBS 30th Street Studio | Columbia Masterworks, ML 5060 |
| 1956 | Beethoven: Piano Sonatas No. 30-32 | 20.-29. June 1956 at the CBS 30th Street Studio | Columbia Masterworks, ML 5130 |
| 1957 | Bach: Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052 & Beethoven: Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19th | 9-11 April 30th and April 30th, 1957 at the CBS 30th Street Studio | Columbia Masterworks, ML 5211 |
| 1957 |
Bach: Partitas Nos. 5 & 6; Fugues in F-sharp minor and E major
|
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5186 | |
| 1958 |
Haydn: Sonata No. 3 in E-flat major; Mozart: Sonata No. 10 in C major, K.330; Fantasia and Fugue in C major, K.394
|
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5274 | |
| 1958 |
Beethoven: Concerto No. 1 in C major; Bach: Concerto No. 5 in F minor
(with Vladimir Golschmann / Columbia Symphony Orchestra ) |
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5298 | |
| 1959 |
Berg: Sonata for Piano, Op. 1; Schoenberg: Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11; Krenek: Sonata No. 3 for Piano, Op. 92, No. 4th
|
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5336 | |
| 1960 |
Gould: String Quartet No. 1
(performed by The Symphonia Quartet) |
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5578, MS 6178 | |
| 1960 |
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
(with Leonard Bernstein / Columbia Symphony Orchestra) |
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5418 | |
| 1960 |
Bach: Italian Concerto in F major & Partita Nos. 1 & 2
|
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5472 | |
| 1961 |
Brahms: 10 Intermezzi
|
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5637 | |
| 1961 |
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
(with Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic ) |
Columbia Masterworks, ML 6262 | |
| 1962 |
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 & Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, Op. 42
|
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5739 | |
| 1962 |
Bach: The Art of the Fugue, Volume I.
(on the organ) |
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5738 | |
| 1962 |
Strauss: Enoch Arden (Tennyson), Op. 38
(with Claude Rains , speaker) |
Columbia Masterworks, MS 6341 | |
| 1963 |
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I Volume I, BWV 846–853
|
Columbia Masterworks, MS 6408 | |
| 1963 |
Bach: Partitas 3 & 4, Toccata 7
|
Columbia Masterworks, MS 6498 | |
| 1963 |
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I Volume 2, BWV 854–861
|
Columbia Masterworks, MS 6538 | |
| 1964 |
Bach: Two and Three Part Inventions, BWV 772–801 (Inventions & Sinfonias)
|
March 18-19, 1964 at the CBS 30th Street Studio | Columbia Masterworks, MS 6622 |
| 1965 | Beethoven: Sonatas No. 5-7, Op. 10, No. 1-3 | Columbia Masterworks, ML 6086, MS 6686 | |
| 1965 |
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I Volume 3, BWV 862–869
|
Columbia Masterworks, MS 6776 | |
| 1966 |
The Music of Arnold Schoenberg
|
between June 11, 1964 and November 18, 1965 | Columbia Masterworks, M2S 736 |
| 1966 |
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, op. 73, "Emperor"
(with Leopold Stokowski / American Symphony Orchestra ) |
Columbia Masterworks, ML 6288, MS 6888 | |
| 1967 | Beethoven: Sonatas for Piano No. 8-10, Op. 13 "Pathétique", Op. 14, No. 1 & 2 | Columbia Masterworks, ML 6345 | |
| 1967 |
Bach: Three Keyboard Concertos, BWV 1054, 1056 & 1058
(with Vladimir Golschmann / The Columbia Symphony Orchestra) |
Columbia Masterworks, ML 6401 | |
| 1967 |
Canadian Music in the XXth Century
|
CBS Masterworks , 32 11 0045 | |
| 1968 |
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op.67 (Transcribed for Piano by Franz Liszt)
|
Columbia Masterworks, MS 7095 | |
| 1968 | Bach: The Goldberg Variations | 10-16 June 1955 in CBS 30th Street Studio, stereo processing 1968 | Columbia Masterworks, MS 7096 |
| 1968 | The Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 | Columbia, MS 7097 | |
| 1968 |
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II Volume I, BWV 870–877
|
August 8, 1966, January 24, 1967, February 20, 1967 at the CBS 30th Street Studio | Columbia Masterworks, MS 7099 |
| 1968 |
Glenn Gould: Concert Dropouts - In Conversation with John McClure
(John McClure, interviewer) |
Columbia Masterworks, BS 15 | |
| 1969 | Scriabin: Sonata No. 3 in F-sharp minor, op. 23 & Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major, op.83 | Columbia Masterworks, MS 7173 | |
| 1969 | The Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 | Columbia Masterworks, MS 7274 | |
| 1969 |
Bach: Keyboard Concertos, Vol. II
(with Vladimir Golschmann / The Columbia Symphony Orchestra) |
CBS, p.72840 | |
| 1970 |
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II Volume II, BWV 878-885
|
Columbia Masterworks, MS 7409 | |
| 1970 | Glenn Gould Plays Beethoven Sonatas Nos. 8, 14 & 23 | Columbia Masterworks, MS 7413 | |
| 1970 |
Beethoven: Variations for Piano
|
Columbia Masterworks, M 30080 | |
| 1971 |
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II Volume III, BWV 886-893
|
Columbia Masterworks, MS 30537 | |
| 1971 | A Consort of Musicke Bye William Byrde and Orlando Gibbons | Columbia Masterworks, M 30825 | |
| 1972 | The Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3 | Columbia Masterworks, M31073 | |
| 1972 |
Schoenberg: Complete Songs for Voice and Piano, Vol. 1
(all titles previously published on M2S 736, 1966) |
Columbia Masterworks, M 31311 | |
| 1972 |
Schoenberg: Complete Songs for Voice and Piano, Vol. 2
(with Donald Gramm, baritone; Cornelius Opthof, baritone, and Helen Vanni, mezzo-soprano) |
Columbia Masterworks, M 31312 | |
| 1972 |
Music from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
(OST Slaughterhouse-Five , all titles already published) |
Columbia Masterworks, p.31333 | |
| 1972 |
Handel: Suites for the Harpsichord
|
Columbia Masterworks, M 31512 | |
| 1973 | Glenn Gould's First Recording of Grieg and Bizet | Columbia Masterworks, M32040 | |
| 1973 |
Bach: The French Suites, Vol. 1
|
Columbia Masterworks, M32347 | |
| 1973 |
The Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4
|
Columbia Masterworks, M 32348 | |
| 1973 | Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Op. 31 Complete | Columbia Masterworks, M 32349 | |
| 1973 |
Glenn Gould Plays Hindemith's Piano Sonatas 1-3
|
Columbia Masterworks, M 32350 | |
| 1973 |
Glenn Gould Plays His Own Transcriptions of Wagner Orchestral Showpieces
|
Columbia Masterworks, M 32351 | |
| 1974 |
Bach: The French Suites, Vol. 2 & Overture in the French Style
|
Columbia Masterworks, M 32853 | |
| 1974 |
Bach: The Three Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord
(with Leonard Rose , viola da gamba ) |
Columbia Masterworks, M 32934 | |
| 1975 |
Beethoven: Bagatelles, Op. 33 & Op. 126
|
Columbia Masterworks, M 33265 | |
| 1976 |
Hindemith: The Complete Sonatas For Brass & Piano
(with members of the Philadelphia Brass Ensemble) |
Columbia Masterworks, M2 33971 | |
| 1976 |
Bach: The Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord
(with Jaime Laredo ) |
Columbia Masterworks, M2 34226 | |
| 1977 |
Glenn Gould Plays Sibelius
|
Columbia Masterworks, M 34555 | |
| 1978 |
Hindemith: Das Marienleben for Soprano & Piano
(with Roxolana Roslak) |
Columbia Masterworks, M2 34597 | |
| 1979 |
Bach: The Toccatas, Vol. 1
|
Columbia Masterworks, M 35144 | |
| 1980 |
Bach: The Toccatas, Vol. 2
|
Columbia Masterworks, M 35831 | |
| 1980 |
Bach: Prelude, Fughettas & Fugues
|
CBS Masterworks, M 35891 | |
| 1982 |
Haydn: The Six Last Sonatas
|
CBS Masterworks, I2M 36947 | |
| 1982 | Bach: The Goldberg Variations (1981 Digital Recording) | CBS Masterworks, M 37779 | |
| 1983 |
Brahms: Ballades, Op. 10 & Rhapsodies, Op. 79
|
CBS Masterworks, IM 37800 | |
| 1983 | Beethoven: Sonatas No. 12, Op. 26 & No. 13, Op. 27, No. 1 | CBS Masterworks, M 37831 | |
| 1984 |
Richard Strauss: Sonata, Op. 5; 5 Piano Pieces, Op. 3
|
September 3, 1982 at RCA Studio A in New York | CBS Masterworks, IM 38659 |
- Schoenberg: Ode to Napoleon, with John Horton (narrator) and the Juilliard String Quartet ; Fantasy for violin and piano, with Israel Baker (1964–1965 / 1967)
- Schumann : Piano Quartet in E flat minor; Juilliard Quartet (1968/1969)
- Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5: Nos. 14, 16 and 17, KV 457, 570 and 576; Fantasia in C minor, KV 475 (1966, 1970, 1973–1974 / 1975)
- JS Bach: Six English Suites (1971, 1973–1976 / 1977)
- Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Op. 2 / No. 1–3 and 28 ("Pastorale") (1974, 1976, 1979/1980)
- The Glenn Gould Silver Jubilee Album: Scarlatti: Sonatas, L 463 , 413 , and 486 (recorded 1968); CPE Bach / Württembergische Sonata No. 1 (recorded 1968); Gould: So You Want to Write A Fugue? (recorded 1963); Scriabin: Two pieces, op. 57 (recorded 1972); Strauss / Ophelia-Lieder, with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , soprano (recorded 1966); # Beethoven / Liszt: 6th Symphony , 1st movement (recorded in 1968); A Glenn Gould Fantasy
Others
The international Glenn Gould Society was founded in 1982 by Cornelis Hofmann in Groningen , and until its closure in 1992 it published a journal called BGGS (Bulletin of the Glenn Gould Society) every six months.
See also
Web links
- Works by and about Glenn Gould in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Glenn Gould in the German Digital Library
- The Glenn Gould Foundation
- The Glenn Gould Archive
- Glenn Gould at Discogs (English)
- Glenn Gould blog with an overview of all Gould CDs
- About Mozart and things related. ( Memento from February 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Glenn Gould in an interview with Bruno Monsaingeon.
media
- Gould Dossier ( Memento of July 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Glenn Gould in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Russell Herbert "Bert" Gould (1901-1996) in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved September 18, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Mrs Florence Emma "Flora" Greig Gould (1891–1975) in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved September 18, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Kevin Bazzana: Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould . 1st edition. Oxford University Press, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-19-518246-0 , pp. 24-26 .
- ↑ Answers. In: answers.com. Answers.com, accessed October 11, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d Glenn Gould. (No longer available online.) In: arte.tv. ARTE program, archived from the original on May 20, 2010 ; accessed on October 11, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ codonauta: Glenn Gould: The Russian Journey. In: youtube.com. August 17, 2011, accessed October 11, 2016 .
- ^ Michael Fitzgerald: The Genesis of Artistic Creativity: Asperger's Syndrome And The Arts . Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London 2005, ISBN 978-1-84985-668-3 , pp. 202 (In his 2005 publication The Genesis of Artistic Creativity , the Irish professor of child and adolescent psychiatry Michael Fitzgerald investigated the question of whether Gould had Asperger's syndrome . Based on the biographical material, he came to the conclusion that the diagnostic criteria apply him.).
- ^ Anthony Tommasini: 5 Hours of Glenn Gould Outtakes. Why? Listen and Find Out. (English speaking). The New York Times , February 12, 2018, accessed June 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Michael Clarkson: News. In: thestar.com. August 25, 2007, accessed October 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Glenn Gould in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved September 8, 2017.
- ^ Dominic Gill: Concertos and Pianists . Financial Times , London February 12, 1970, p. 3
- ^ Glenn Gould, Writings on Music 1, from Bach to Boulez, From Mozart and related things, Glenn Gould in conversation with Bruno Monsaingeon
- ↑ Much more than “wonderful” , stern , February 5, 2006, interview with Joachim Kaiser
- ^ Canadian Music Hall of Fame - Inductees. Canadian Music Hall of Fame , accessed August 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Awards for music sales: CH
- ^ Homepage of the Glenn Gould School
- ↑ Ueberle-Pfaff in the translator database of the VdÜ , 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gould, Glenn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gould, Glenn Herbert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian pianist, composer and music writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th October 1982 |
| Place of death | Toronto , Canada |