Glenn Gould
Glenn Gould
Glenn Herbert Gouldwas 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...
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth25 September 1932
CityToronto, Canada
art identity matter
The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of melodic identities which when transposed, inverted, made retrograde, or transformed rhythmically will yet exhibit, in conjunction with the original subject matter, some entirely new but completely harmonious profile.
art pieces finals
The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.
art men burning
The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.
art purpose wonder
The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.
cutting artist creative
If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing
art serenity purpose
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
everybody loves reaches
Everybody loves this place. It is so beautiful; everybody reaches out to one another.
symphony eight half
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.
two numbers intuition
I don't know what the effective ratio would be, but I've always had some sort of intuition that for every hour you spend in the company of other human beings, you need "x" number of hours alone. Now, what "x" represents I don't really know; it might be two and seven-eighths or seven and two-eighths, but it is a substantial ratio.
forever speak childish-things
Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.
museums records curator
A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.
musical too-late late
Mozart died too late rather than too soon.
sky clarity mood
My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.
musician reason
[Bach is the] reason I became a musician