Glenn Gould was gifted, eccentric, beautiful and dead at 50, which explains why he has inspired more than a dozen TV and feature documentaries. The latest, Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Glenn Herbert Gould (September 25, 1932 – October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the ...

A profoundly enigmatic musical poet, there have been many documentaries about Glenn Gould, but they were typically sidetracked, focusing on the pills and fashions - missing the man, the magic and the ...

Concert pianists are notoriously temperamental, but with good reason: Their pianos are, too. Why else would J.S. Bach specify a "well-tempered clavier"? The modern piano is a jury-rigged contraption ...

On the evening of April 10, 1964 — that is, 60 years ago Wednesday — the Canadian virtuoso Glenn Gould stepped away from the piano at the end of his concert at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los ...

Glenn Gould hummed when he played the piano and it drove recording engineers batty. They tried everything to prevent studio microphones from picking up the pianist’s stray voice. A delirious showman, ...

Glenn Gould, as scorned and as revered as any figure in modern music, died in 1982. François Girard’s movie, from 1994, honors Gould’s strong-willed, idiosyncratic genius with a suitably offbeat ...

One of the key decisions by François Girard, the director of “Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould” (which I discuss in this clip), is to include performances by Gould of lots of music besides ...