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2004-08-19 / Times Literary Supplement / Angela Hewitt

WONDROUS STRANGE
The life and art of Glenn Gould
by Kevin Bazzana
Yale University Press

I had dreaded reading another biography of Glenn Gould. Aren’t there enough already? Sometimes it seems as though I can never get away from him: “Tell me, you are a Canadian pianist, known as a Bach specialist, and winner of the international piano competition held in his memory – what influence did Glenn Gould have on you and were you afraid to be in his shadow?”. “No” is always the answer to the latter part of the question. (It is Bach who scares me, not Gould.) As a kid I saw him regularly on Canadian television. “Who’s that kook?”, I asked my parents. Playing with his nose practically on the keyboard, and always at tempos that even at that age I knew were bizarre, he was clearly recognizable as a serious presence in Canadian musical life, but not, perhaps, one to be closely imitated. I recall a Bach class in the music festival at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto (where Gould himself played as a teenager) in

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History

Sep 25, 1932

Glenn Herbert Gould is born in Toronto at 32 Southwood Drive. His father is Russell Herbert (Bert) Gould (1901-1996); his mother was born Florence Emma Greig (1891-1975).

1935

Begins piano lessons with his mother, after his musical gifts including perfect pitch become apparent.

Jun 5 & 6, 1938

First documented public performances, at church events in Uxbridge.

Aug 30, 1938

First music competition at the Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto.

Dec 4, 1938

Radio debut in a public revue entitled “Today’s Children”.

Jun 4, 1939

First documented performance as a conductor, where Glenn Gould led a church song service in Uxbridge.

Sep 1939

Begins Grade 2 at Williamson Road Public School.

Feb 1940

Takes first piano examination at the Toronto Conservatory of Music in Grade 3 piano.

Spring 1940

Creates The Daily Woof—The Animals Paper, a handwritten manifesto.

Dec 18, 1941

Completes A Merry Thought, his earliest surviving piano composition.

1942

Begins organ lessons with Frederick C. Silvester and continues to st

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Glenn Gould

Canadian pianist (1932–1982)

For the actor, see Glen Gould.

Glenn Herbert Gould^{[fn 1]} (; 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, Schumann, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and others, in favour of Bach and Beethoven mainly, along with some late-Romantic and modernist composers. Gould also recorded works by Haydn, Mozart, and Brahms; pre-Baroque composers such as Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, William Byrd, and Orlando Gibbons; and 20th-century composers including Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schoenberg, Alexander Scriabin and Richard Strauss.

Gould was also a writer and broadcaster, and dabbled in composing and conducting. He produced televisi