The happiness of Glenn GOULD

[tituslabienusfr]

Tat-ta-ti-tata-tate....Du Grand, du très grand . encore merci Mr Glenn

[enecee13]

simply amazing

[dra37]

Nevermind, I found it: BWV826

[dirksontube]

@dra37 THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!

[dra37]

Annyone knows the name of this song by it's BWV code? I would like to lay my hands on this score.

[dra37]

Annyone know the name of this song by it's BWV code? I would like to lay my hands on this score.

[Erikk91]

i don't want to offend anyone, but isnt this midi-like...?

[Totennebel]

@Erikk91

yes, that's the way he played. he was often criticized because of that.

[MrChumFm]

I'd laugh if the dog was named "Beethoven" :P

[MrAndieMusik]

This one is the luckiest of all music-loving dogs. It seems to be quite happy, anyway, licking its lips with the joy of listening to Bach.

[masterkuprij]

=O

PERFECT!

[ophelius111]

I wonder if this is how he really was when practicing. It's not like this was a hidden camera. We tend to exaggerate or over-dramatize things when a camera is in front of us. Just look at reality television these days.

[tromboneCavender]

To the two who disliked this video: go lie facedown in the mud.

[hildagrim]

@tromboneCavender forever

[VamLoveAndKisses]

Is this actually him? I am a new fan and am in complete awe of this man. It just seems so...film like. Not in a bad way, but the way he gets up and goes to the window humming while the camera just watches and then he comes back to the piano and continues playing. Is this like, a reenactment or a film clip of his life? If so what is the name of the film? Or is it a sort of documentary?

I sound really dumb, but I am so interesting in this fascinating, talented man.

[louismarcil]

@VamLoveAndKisses it is a doccumentary on piano but I don't know it's name. and he's not acting at all. that's just how he normally behaved!

[andriventu]

OH MY GOD

[Tomislav4499]

Both performers and composers can be considered geniuses. But, it just so often happens that great composers are also virtuoso performers. So, we might say that being a great composer is a bit higher order of genius.

[JohnEBPiano]

@Tomislav4499 People often have difficulties deciding how much praise to give to the performer in light of the composer. I see it as a sort of legal process. The composer writes and passes a law, and the performer enforces this law, if he is in fact a good one. I don't know, that's just what I like to think of sometimes.

[skltf]

i watched this video and i want to play like him, but i found out it is not a original version finally after i learnt this piece

[indoormusic]

can you just post this entire movie?

[Nagudde]

For a radical broad-leafed understanding of "genius" check the root "GAN" in your etymological dictionary under the word "genus".

[staybeautiful101]

YES

[patoa94]

I want to be the dog.

[misstavin1969]

I want to be the piano

[thejugglenaut91]

i want to be HIM!

[Thilindel]

@thejugglenaut91

Um, at this point, the only thing you'd be doing is DE-composing!!

[b0ttomzone]

and i want to be that guy.

[noratranvouez]

@patoa94 I am the dog. wouaf !

[AlejandroAndorlini]

@patoa94 ;-)

[vlad432]

is fantastic!! by the way what is he playing?

[Luisurbina93]

Wow. I love how he gets up and sings the fugal rhytym and then immediately picks it up on the piano! He must be in some kind of mental trance

[mesedoimuchuon]

priceless

[sammasati1]

An explosion of music !

[youngamadeus8911]

id advise people (particuarly sstuddert) to educate themselves on a subject before they speak on it....seriousley quit talking about things u dont know

[sstuddert]

To begin with, I hardly see how my comment is wrong in any way. If you thinm I am wrong at all please reply to me and make your view on the matter perfectly clear. That brings me to my second point, I implore you not to make comments about me unless they are to me.

[sstuddert]

I have never called any performer a genius, where is the genius in performance? musical genius lies in composition. However, with Glenn Gould, I am forced, by sheer common sense, to make an exception. Even though he was not a composer, his genius was all too conspicuous. Yes, it is true that he did compose sometimes, but he never really did so seriously or regarding himself as a composer.

The worst part is that, just as he decided to take up composition seriously, he died.

A disgusting waste.

[clubsandwedge]

I don't think he only just took up composition before he died

[sstuddert]

He did compose, though he did not really decide to take up composition seriously until just before his death.

[curzmg]

I could just as easily say, where is the genius in composition? Sorry, you just made an absoloutely huge statement which if you publicised would be torn down in an instant and you know it. I don't know what possessed you to say that and I'm sure if you really thought about it, you would take it back. Gould took everything musical seriously, but by his own admission, he was no composer, he simply enjoyed it.

[sstuddert]

Creation - there is the genius is composition. Performance requires much, much, much skill - but rarely are performers geniuses.

[kuchuk1]

That's about the biggest nonsense I've EVER heard.

[curzmg]

I disagree. There is not a single definition of genius that I have imagined or seen that would exclude performance. Though I have always favoured the descriptive position when it comes to dictionaries - how would you describe 'genius'? Why can great skill not be regarded as genius? To say Gould only had great skill would disregard his broader understanding of music that surpasses really any other. xXx

[sstuddert]

But you misread my comment then! I did say that RARELY are performers geniuses. I also said "However, with Glenn Gould, I am forced, by sheer common sense, to make an exception."

[Ender91]

that's the dumbest shit i ever heard

you mean to tell me that itzahk perlman and jascha heifetz (violinists) aren't geniuses just because they didn't compose? who are you to decide that? did the "genius" fairy come down and say you get to decide whos genius and who isn't? jesus christ, some people are so ignorant.

[samisyosam]

Performers are brainless turds. Been one, hated it. It's too soulless.

Composing a musical work is painful. It's the most difficult part of the whole process. It involves the ripping of hair, the breaking of furniture, the shedding of blood and the overall insanity of trying to wrestle new, entirely fleshed-out concepts onto the paper.

Performers can't do anything but play. If they could write better stuff, they would. Anybody who composes wouldn't spend all their time performing old music.

[tombaker1222]

That is such bollocks. I'm sorry, but really it is. "Performers can't do anything but play" - that's like saying "Ovens don't do anything but get hot" - you're missing the point. Yes Performers Play and Ovens get hot - but *why* and *how* they do it is when the brains come into it. Soloists inparticular but even when in an ensemble. You think what people like Pavarotti did was easy? Interpretation is every bit as hard as composing. It's almost like a composition within a composition.

[tombaker1222]

And after reading your comment about "Anyone who composes wouldn't spend all their time performing old music" I wonder why I bothered replying. You think John Williams only plays John Williams and never plays his own (old) compositions?

[ShredST]

Interpreting a piece of music definitely takes creativity and imagination. There's no creativity in simply playing the notes according to the score. However, to be able to take the notes from the score and paint a coherent picture is anything but mechanical. In a way, the interpretor is creating within the limits provided by the music he's playing.

[IHARVWD]

To ShredST, and all.

Absolutely. And just like talented composers, talented interpreters, through their creative power and musical understanding, constantly bring something new to the table. Glenn Gould's interpretations are, in my humble opinion, genius because they simultaneously display Bach meticulous attention to rhythm and articulation while molding the music into something fresh and very personal.

[whatsmylogin]

I love that piece played at that tempo.

[miliona1re]

Genius

[looneyfarm]

incredible, hypnotic... thanks for posting this

[jonh2o]

wow