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
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.
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.
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.
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.
sky clarity mood
My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.
musician reason
[Bach is the] reason I became a musician
art pieces finals
The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.
past planes notes
The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.
people television watches
I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.
thinking law evil
I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.
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.