Glenn Gould

Glenn Herbert Gould (25 September 1932  4 October 1982) was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and capacity to articulate the polyphonic texture of Bach's music.

After his adolescence, Gould rejected most of the standard Romantic piano literature including Liszt, Schumann, and Chopin. Although his recordings were dominated by Bach, Gould's repertoire was diverse, including works by Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Brahms, pre-Baroque composers such as Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Orlando Gibbons and William Byrd, and such 20th-century composers as Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schoenberg and Richard Strauss. Gould was well known for various eccentricities, from his unorthodox musical interpretations and mannerisms at the keyboard to aspects of his lifestyle and personal behaviour. He stopped giving concerts at the age of 31 to concentrate on studio recording and other projects. Gould was the first pianist to record any of Liszt's piano transcriptions of Beethoven's symphonies (beginning with the Fifth Symphony, in 1967).

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Glenn Gould

ALBUMS

The Complete Bach Collection

Released 2012

Glenn Gould Plays Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Books I & II

Released 2012

Glenn Gould Plays Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Released 2012

Bach: Preludes, Fughettas and Fugues

Released 2003

Goldberg Variations

Released 1999

The Glenn Gould Edition: The Well-Tempered Clavier I

Released 1993

Handel: Harpsichord Sonatas nos. 1-4 / Bach: Preludes & Fugues, BWV 878 & 883

Released 1993

"Eroica" Variations / Variations / Bagatelles

Released 1992

Goldberg Variations

Released 1992

The English Suites / Overture in the French Style

Released 1986

The French Suites

Released 1986

Bach: The Two and Three Part Inventions

Salzburg Recital 1959

Born: 1932-09-25

Died: 1982-10-04

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