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
Glenn Gould quotes about
consists eight measures remarkable surrounded symphony
The G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.
isolation indispensable humans
Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.
listening crafts
There is a craft and a power in listening.
void doe forget
The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it.