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
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.
music keys individual
The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.
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.
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[Bach is the] reason I became a musician
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Mozart died too late rather than too soon.
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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.