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  1. Jan 24, 2023 · Glenn Gould is still very much alive. Forty years after his death, he continues to enjoy enormous international attention and prestige, and to provoke considerable debate not only about his exceptional piano-playing but about his ideas and personality—he remains a surprising figure as both musician and man. A truly overwhelming amount of ...

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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Glenn_GouldGlenn Gould - Wikipedia

    Glenn Herbert Gould [fn 1] (/ ɡ uː l d /; 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.

  3. Humphrey Burton, who knew him, remembers an extraordinary artist. When I first met Glenn Gould over half a century ago, he was 28 and artist in residence at the 1960 Vancouver Festival. He was already a world-famous pianist, fabulously good-looking in the James Dean mould and blessed, so it seemed, with a warm, outgoing personality.

  4. Oct 4, 2012 · Thirty years ago Thursday, we, and the classical music world, lost one of our true giants when Gould passed away from a stroke just nine days after his 50th birthday. Remembering Glenn Gould up ...

  5. Aug 25, 2007 · When Glenn Gould died young 25 years ago, friends were stunned to find a love letter in his cluttered Toronto apartment, among the empty pill pots and records. “I am deeply in love with a ...

  6. Sep 22, 2022 · Glenn Gould plays on Oct. 26, 1965, a little less than 17 years before he would die at the age of 50. ... Glenn Gould would have turned 90 on Sunday — 40 years after his death we still can’t ...

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  8. Dec 12, 2022 · Glenn Gould's landmark documentary, The Idea of North, first aired on CBC Radio on December 28, 1967. In his boldly experimental program about the Canadian North, the pianist used a technique he ...