Glenn Gould

Glenn Herbert Gould (Septembre 25, 1932 – October 4, 1982) qui a Canadian pianiste who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly as renowned à interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach. His jouer ce distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and capacity to articulate the polyphonic texture de Bach’s music. Gould rejected most of the standard Romantic piano literature and the shunned music of several of its composers, déco Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann et Chopin. Although his recordings were dominated by Bach, Gould s'oeuvre de ce qui est divers, including works by Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Brahms, pré-Baroque composers, such as Jan Sweelinck, and such 20th-century composers as Paul Hindemith and Arnold Schoenberg. Gould ce que well known for various eccentricities, from his-conformistes musical interpretations and mannerisms at the keyboard to aspects of his mode de vie et de personnel behavior. He stopped donner des concerts at the age of 31 to concentrate on studio recording and other projects. Gould, ce qui also known as a writer, composer, conductor, and diffuseur. He was a prolific contributor to musical journal, in which he discussed music theory and outlined his musical de la philosophie. His career as a composer ce que less unique; his sortie de ce minimum projects and many were left unfinished. There is evidence that had he lived au-delà de 50, he intended to abandon the piano and devote the remainder of his career to conducting and other projects. - As-a-broadcaster, Gould, ce qui prolific. His sortie ranged from television and radio diffusions of studio spectacles to musique concrète radio documentaries about life in the Canadian wilderness.