The Glenn Gould Archive

Glenn Gould

Early Career

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Gould took no formal lessons in composition. As a teenager he worked to come to terms with the classics as well as with the contemporary idiom of the twelve-tone method of composition that was then taking root on North American campuses.

Gould, Glenn. Our Gifts. Piano-vocal score, mimeograph, March 25, 1943

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Front cover

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First page

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Second page

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Third page

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Gould, Glenn. Sonata for Piano. Manuscript, ink on MS paper, n.d. (ca 1948)

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Glenn Gould playing the piano (possibly his Chickering grand at the Lake Simcoe cottage), early 1950s. A Bach score is on top of the piano

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Glenn Gould playing the organ in the concert hall of the Toronto Conservatory of Music, ca 1945

"[Heinrich] Neuhaus wrote that Gould's way of playing Bach made one feel that the composer himself was sitting at the keyboard."4

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Glenn Gould, playing one of four grand pianos in Columbia Records 30th Street Studio, New York, 1957

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Glenn Gould playing the piano, with his teacher Alberto Guerrero standing by, ca 1945

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