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When Gould was around ten years old, he injured his back as a result of a fall from a boat ramp on the shore of Lake Simcoe. As he played, he often swayed his torso, almost always in a clockwise motion. He was considered a child prodigy and in adulthood was also described as a musical phenomenon. His piano playing had great clarity, particularly in contrapuntal passages. Gould was known for his vivid musical imagination, and listeners regarded his interpretations as ranging from brilliantly creative to, on occasion, outright eccentric. He is buried in Toronto's Mount Pleasant Cemetery. He was taken off life support on October 4. He was admitted to the hospital and his condition rapidly deteriorated. He suffered a stroke on 27 September 1982, which paralyzed the left side of his body. He had intended to give up the piano at the age of 50, spending later years conducting, writing on music and composing.Дuring his life he suffered many pains and ailments, though was something of a hypochondriac, and his autopsy revealed few underlying problems in areas that often troubled him. His last recording was as a conductor, Wagner's Siegfried Idyll in its original chamber music scoring. 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 SГјnde from the harpsipiano (a piano with metal hammers to simulate harpsichord sound) in the 1960s. For the rest of his life he eschewed live performance, focusing instead on recording, writing, and broadcasting. Oddly, a recording exists in which Gould claims the event took place in Chicago. 30, selections from Bach's The Art of Fugue, and the Piano Sonata No. Among the pieces he performed that night were Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. On April 10, 1964, Gould gave his last public performance, playing in Los Angeles, California, at the Wilshire Ebell Theater.

GLENN GOULD QUOTES SERIAL

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. In 1957, Gould toured the Soviet Union, becoming the first North American to play there since World War II. This was the beginning of his long association with radio and recording. His first public recital followed in 1947, and his first recital on radio came with the CBC in 1950. 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. They were all orchestral sounds, but I was playing them all, and suddenly I was Hofmann. 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. It was, I think, his last performance in Toronto, and it was a staggering impression. He later described the experience: 'It was Hofmann. 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. 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. Silvester and theory with Leo Smith.ДЄt an early age Gould became interested in composition, and played his own little pieces for family, friends, and sometimes larger gatherings. At ten he began attending the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where he studied piano with Alberto Guerrero, organ with Frederick C. Gould's first piano teacher was his mother until the age of ten. 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. He had perfect pitch and could read music before he could read words. Both his parents were musical and his mother, especially, encouraged the infant Gould's early musical development. Gould's interest in music, and his talent as a pianist, became evident very early on. Gould had no Jewish ancestry, 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.'

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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. His maternal grandfather was a cousin of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. Glenn Herbert Gould was born at home in Toronto on September 25, 1932, to Russell Herbert ('Bert') Gould and Florence ('Flora') Emma Gould (nГ©e Greig), Presbyterians of Scottish and English ancestry. Alberto Guerrero with his student Glenn Gould, 1945.

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