Companion of the Order of Canada (declined by Gould) Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2013) Grammy Awards: 1973, 1982, 1983 Juno Awards: 1979, 1983, 1984 Canadian Music Hall of Fame National Historic Person
Musical career
Genres
Classical music
Instrument(s)
Piano
organ
Years active
1945–1982
Labels
Columbia Masterworks
Musical artist
Website
glenngould.com
Signature
Glenn Herbert Gould[fn 1] (/ɡuːld/; né Gold;[fn 2] 25 September 1932 – 4 October 1982) was a Canadian classical pianist. He was among the most famous and celebrated pianists of the 20th century,[1] renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and a capacity to articulate the contrapuntal texture of Bach's music.
Gould rejected most of the Romantic piano literature by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and others, in favour of Bach and Beethoven mainly, along with some late-Romantic and modernist composers. Gould also recorded works by Mozart, Haydn, Scriabin, and Brahms; pre-Baroque composers such as Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, William Byrd, and Orlando Gibbons; and 20th-century composers including Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schoenberg, and Richard Strauss.
Gould was also a writer and broadcaster, and dabbled in composing and conducting. He produced television programmes about classical music, in which he would speak and perform, or interact with an interviewer in a scripted manner. He made three musique concrète radio documentaries, collectively the Solitude Trilogy, about isolated areas of Canada. He was a prolific contributor to music journals, in which he discussed music theory. Gould was known for his eccentricities, ranging from his unorthodox musical interpretations and mannerisms at the keyboard to aspects of his lifestyle and behaviour. He disliked public performance, and stopped giving concerts at age 31 to concentrate on studio recording and media.
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Glenn Herbert Gould (/ɡuːld/; né Gold; 25 September 1932 – 4 October 1982) was a Canadian classical pianist. He was among the most famous and celebrated...
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academy, in turn, merged into the Toronto Conservatory of Music in 1924. GlennGould – arguably the conservatory's most outstanding pupil – studied theory...
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work", and GlennGould said that "the appearance of this wistful, weary cantilena is a master-stroke of psychology." In an interview with Gould, Tim Page...
varied, featuring works by composers such as J.S. Bach (interpreted by GlennGould), Mozart, Beethoven (played by the Budapest String Quartet), and Stravinsky...
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GlennGould, had chosen an idiosyncratic approach to the work. Bernstein explained that while he did not totally agree with it, he thought Gould's interpretation...
Jobim George Jones The Memphis Horns Diana Ross Gil Scott-Heron 2013 GlennGould Charlie Haden Lightnin' Hopkins Carole King Patti Page Ravi Shankar The...
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with Matti Raekallio. In 2015 she earned her Artist Diploma from The GlennGould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada, studying...
including Best Motion Picture in 1993 for Thirty Two Short Films About GlennGould and for The Red Violin in 1999. The Red Violin also garnered an Oscar...
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