Glenn Gould
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 Glenn Gould facts

• He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach
• His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and capacity to articulate the polyphonic texture of Bach's music
• After his adolescence, Gould rejected most of the standard Romantic piano literature including Liszt, Schumann, and Chopin
• Although his recordings were dominated by Bach, Gould's repertoire was diverse, including works by Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Brahms, pre-Baroque composers such as Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Orlando Gibbons and William Byrd, and such 20th-century composers as Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schoenberg and Richard Strauss
• Gould was well known for various eccentricities, from his unorthodox musical interpretations and mannerisms at the keyboard to aspects of his lifestyle and personal behaviour
• He stopped giving concerts at the age of 31 to concentrate on studio recording and other projects
• Gould was the first pianist to record any of Liszt's piano transcriptions of Beethoven's symphonies (beginning with the Fifth Symphony, in 1967)
• Gould was also known as a writer, composer, conductor, and broadcaster
• He was a prolific contributor to musical journals, in which he discussed music theory and outlined his musical philosophy
• His career as a composer was less distinguished