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4 unusual facts about Glenn Gould


Authorship and ownership in copyright law in Canada

In Gould Estate, the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould participates in a number of interviews with a freelance writer, John Carroll, who is gathering material for an article about Gould.

James Doull

He greatly admired the playing of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, with whom he shared, in addition to an extraordinary independence of mind, a vision of Canadian spiritual life (which for Doull encompassed such spheres as politics, art, religion, and philosophy) that combined both a receptivity to the possibilities of the new world and a strong sense of continuity with the European past.

Kevin Bazzana

Kevin Bazzana is a Canadian music historian and biographer, best known for his works on the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.

The Loser

There are three main characters: the narrator (who is the only survivor), Glenn Gould, who died a natural death at fifty-one, and Wertheimer who committed suicide some time later.


Barbara Pentland

Though her works are performed relatively infrequently, a number of her pieces have been recorded by such performers as Angela Hewitt (Studies in Line, Glenn Gould (Ombres/Shadows), and Robert Rogers (numerous works).


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Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

The title also inspired Cory Arcangel's piece "A Couple Thousand Short Films About Glenn Gould" which constructed the Goldberg variations out of clips of notes from YouTube.