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Johann Sebastian Bach Variations Goldberg 1955 (Albüm) by Glenn Gould

Sanatçı biyografisi Glenn Gould

Glenn Herbert Gould 1 2 September 25 1932 – October 4 1982 Was A Canadian Pianist Noted Especially For His Recordings Of The Music Of Johann Sebastian Bach Remarkable Technical Proficiency Unorthodox Musical Philosophy And Eccentric Personality And Piano Technique. He Is One Of The Best Known And Most Celebrated Pianists Of The Twentieth Century. He Stopped Performing Concerts In 1964 Dedicating Himself To The Recording Studio For The Rest Of His Career—as Well As Performances For Television And Radio Non-Musical Radio Documentaries And Other Projects.
Glenn Herbert Gould 1 2 Was Born At Home In Toronto On September 25 1932 To Russell Herbert "Bert" Gould And Florence "Flora" Emma Gould Née Greig 3 Presbyterians Of Scottish And English Ancestry. His Maternal Grandfather Was A Cousin Of Norwegian Composer Edvard Grieg. 4 The Family's Surname Was Changed To Gould Informally Around 1939 In Order To Avoid Being Mistaken As Jewish Due To A Series Of Reasons Centring On 'the Prevailing Anti-Semitism Of Pre-War Toronto' And The Gold Surname's Jewish Association. 5 Gould Had No Jewish Ancestry 6 Though Sometimes Made Jokes On The Subject E.G "When People Ask Me If I'm Jewish I Always Tell Them That I Was Jewish During The War." 7 Gould's Interest In Music And His Talent As A Pianist Became Evident Very Early On. Both His Parents Were Musical And His Mother Especially Encouraged The Infant Gould's Early Musical Development. He Had Perfect Pitch And Could Read Music Before He Could Read Words. 8 At A Young Age He Reportedly Behaved Differently From Typical Children At The Piano He Would Strike Single Notes And Listen To Their Long Decay. 9 Gould's First Piano Teacher Was His Mother Until The Age Of Ten. At Ten He Began Attending The Royal Conservatory Of Music In Toronto Where He Studied Piano With Alberto Guerrero Organ With Frederick C. Silvester And Theory With Leo Smith. At An Early Age Gould Became Interested In Composition And Played His Own Little Pieces For Family Friends And Sometimes Larger Gatherings. For Example In 1938 In The Company Of His Mother Gould Attended The Emmanuel Presbyterian Church A Few Blocks From The Gould House And Performed One Of His Own Compositions. 10 When He Was Six Glenn Was Taken For The First Time To Hear A Live Musical Performance By A Celebrated Soloist Which Had A Tremendous Impact On Him. He Later Described The Experience "It Was Hofmann. It Was I Think His Last Performance In Toronto And It Was A Staggering Impression. The Only Thing I Can Really Remember Is That When I Was Being Brought Home In A Car I Was In That Wonderful State Of Through Your Mind. They Were All Orchestral Sounds But I Was Playing Them All And Suddenly I Was Hofmann. I Was Enchanted." In 1945 He Gave His First Public Performance Playing The Organ And The Following Year He Made His First Appearance With An Orchestra The Toronto Symphony Orchestra In A Performance Of Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto. His First Public Recital Followed In 1947 And His First Recital On Radio Came With The CBC In 1950. This Was The Beginning Of His Long Association With Radio And Recording. In 1957 Gould Toured The Soviet Union Becoming The First North American To Play There Since World War II. His Concerts Featured Bach Beethoven And The Serial Music Of Arnold Schoenberg And Alban Berg Which Had Been Suppressed In The Soviet Union During The Era Of Socialist Realism. On April 10 1964 Gould Gave His Last Public Performance Playing In Los Angeles California At The Wilshire Ebell Theater. 11 Among The Pieces He Performed That Night Were Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 30 Selections From Bach's The Art Of Fugue And The Piano Sonata No. 3 Op. 92 No. 4 By Ernst Krenek. Oddly A Recording Exists In Which Gould Claims The Event Took Place In Chicago. For The Rest Of His Life He Eschewed Live Performance Focusing Instead On Recording Writing And Broadcasting. Towards The End Of His Life He Began Conducting He Had Earlier Directed Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.5 And Cantata BWV 54 Widerstehe Doch Der Sünde From The Harpsipiano A Piano With Metal Hammers To Simulate Harpsichord Sound In The 1960s. His Last Recording Was As A Conductor Wagner's Siegfried Idyll In Its Original Chamber Music Scoring. He Had Intended To Give Up The Piano At The Age Of 50 Spending Later Years Conducting Writing On Music And Composing. During His Life He Suffered Many Pains And Ailments Though Was Something Of A Hypochondriac 12 And His Autopsy Revealed Few Underlying Problems In Areas That Often Troubled Him. 13 He Suffered A Stroke On 27 September 1982 Which Paralyzed The Left Side Of His Body. He Was Admitted To The Hospital And His Condition Rapidly Deteriorated. He Was Taken Off Life Support On October 4. 14 He Is Buried In Toronto's Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

BAŞLANGIÇ GLENN GOULD
POPÜLER PARÇALAR KARIŞIMLAR ALBÜMLER
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