The mystically gifted boy from Toronto hated being a child prodigy. All his life Glen Gould (1932-1982) was independent of other people’s opinions. The world has dutifully become accustomed both to his unheard-of Bach and to his unprecedented oddities. To his warm coat and gloves in the heat.
The mystically gifted boy from Toronto hated being a child prodigy. All his life Glen Gould (1932-1982) was independent of other people’s opinions. The world has dutifully become accustomed both to his unheard-of Bach and to his unprecedented oddities. To his warm coat and gloves in the heat. To hypochondria and pill bottles (although he was practically healthy). To his folding chair — on the stage Gould always sat only on it, until he rubbed it to the hole and was already sitting on the cross. While playing, he loudly sang along and conducted. At the age of 31, he completely went into recording, believing that an artist at a concert is like a gladiator in the Colosseum. Lonely, desired and elusive, an eccentric and a hermit, in 1957 he performed in Moscow, shocked her and … never returned. This is the first detailed biography of the genius in Russian.
Kevin Bazzana The Enchanted Wanderer. The Life and Art of Glen Gould Classics-XXI, 479 p.