I love this piece..They put it at the end of a documentary i mentioned in the previous entry I put a few min ago.If you have netflix video streaming watch ''Genius Within, the inner life of Glenn Gould....The best documentary I' ve seen about him and one of the best documentaries I've seen about anyone, If already praised him, after watching this documentary I was much more impressed...so watch or buy it, it is quite fantastic.
@gybemm ... I have seen it, go buy the CBC Broadcasts. You guys are totally deluded. You think Gould was generally saddened that he was "not as a great as a composer as Bach" . Once again this is your own personal assumption , Gould never expresses his sadness about ( not being as good as Bach) , actually quite the opposite, he Loves Music for music. He was an interpreter, and without argument one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century.
Oh my God , Bebop...despite the bad language I must agree with PorroFirst, i think it is a little simplistic to think he was feeling the pain of not being near Bach...My theory and I could be wrong, reading a lot about Gould and looking at a fantastic award winning documentary: Glenn Gould ''Genius Within'' is that he evolved and he was probably looking back and thinking he would have composed it a little different now...
I am realizing more and more how much one of my peers reminds me of Glenn, its scary. He looks like Glenn, has the same mannerisms, talent(however my classmate plays the sax as well as the piano). whew..
It's quite endearing seeing him be shy about the applause at the end, but thinking about it, Gould probably scripted the whole thing. Do you think it was scripted?
Bach wrote his music to praise God. Not sure if Bach was a truly devout man but he did write MANY of his pieces for the specific purpose of playing them during church service.
@modulomath Well he only wrote that material because it was required of him by his employer, the church, which was pretty much the only employer back then. If he had been working for a secular employer, we might well have seen "The evolutionary oratorio" instead of the Christmas one!
@modulomath Well you know what they say about arguing on the internet is like running in the special olympics: Even if you win, your still retarded. Later dude.
Its funny because he knows the technicalities in yet you want to technically press the point that he cannot be called a composer because he never wrote fugue..lol. Whatever, I dont know..There is something about him that is special regardless of what you want to say. All the same, I can see what your getting at i think...
Glenn Gould is without a doubt a musical genius. However, if you see this video knowing nothing about him, you would be completely clueless as to how chaotic and neurotic this great man was. In here he looks so kind and laid back.
This is not to discourage composition as a process, exercise and a form of analysis. Every person engaged in the musical field should be engaged in the compositional process in order to enrich one's understanding of all music and provide the ability to construct well informed and well guided opinions/thoughts. But a composer who cannot write a fugue is tantamount to a carpenter that cannot work with wood.
How ridiculous! Did Chopin ever write a fugue? He studied and admired Bach's for sure, but he certainly didn't need to write one in order to communicate his ideas in the great number of genres that he composed in.
@bubuliboooo Well, I wouldnt say he couldnt work with wood. I believe if he was inspired to take that path then he had the potential to do so. Would you agree? As to being referred to as a composer..Technically speaking.. i guess one could not consider him as such. hmm. Its interesting points you make. He gets praised a great deal and put up on the world stage so young. Theres not much of a doubt in my mind in regards of his intelligence. He also seemed on a very special social level to go with
One who cannot write a fugue does not reserve to right to refer to themselves as a composer. It matters not how many effects or numbers of isorhythms and cross-rhythms one can cram into a work, if there is not the apt level of understanding of how music functions within each epoch of history and how the past masters contributed to the evolution of music to date, one is doomed to fail to communicate any given musical idea with any level of coherence or efficacy.
it warms my heart to know that when this video is playing the only petty thing going through our mind is religion. shut the fuck up and listen to the master. if you want to argue religion then its an uphill battle. an atheist cant convert a christian. a christian cant convert an atheist. so enjoy the fugue
I'd be interested in hearing YOUR vocal fugue (with accompaniment), written to your own text, on the technicalities of fugal writing to see how much of a composer YOU are.
@JekyllBoote lolol as a composer myself, this is one form i KNOW i couldnt write in, even though i understand the anatomy of a fugue and have played many of Bach and Mozart, i dont have the ability to write it
People kill and do a lot of bad things with god in their mouth, so better leave god alone, I think He could live very well without us human beings doing silly things for Him.
I would really love to. I'm in a great choir with great singers, I'm a tenor and can get the others. I study in a conservatory of music, so I can get the string players too!
OK, but this is not XIX century anymore, and I don't know of many amateurs nowadays who could live off their musical skills. Other than this, what I meant was that Monsaingeon had been a professional violin player.
he got caught doing music in public.
octopuscollective 2 months ago
I love this piece..They put it at the end of a documentary i mentioned in the previous entry I put a few min ago.If you have netflix video streaming watch ''Genius Within, the inner life of Glenn Gould....The best documentary I' ve seen about him and one of the best documentaries I've seen about anyone, If already praised him, after watching this documentary I was much more impressed...so watch or buy it, it is quite fantastic.
gybemm 2 months ago
@gybemm ... I have seen it, go buy the CBC Broadcasts. You guys are totally deluded. You think Gould was generally saddened that he was "not as a great as a composer as Bach" . Once again this is your own personal assumption , Gould never expresses his sadness about ( not being as good as Bach) , actually quite the opposite, he Loves Music for music. He was an interpreter, and without argument one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century.
BeBopDeluxe85 1 month ago
@gybemm Please show me something that points to his general sadness of not being as good as Bach.
BeBopDeluxe85 1 month ago
Oh my God , Bebop...despite the bad language I must agree with PorroFirst, i think it is a little simplistic to think he was feeling the pain of not being near Bach...My theory and I could be wrong, reading a lot about Gould and looking at a fantastic award winning documentary: Glenn Gould ''Genius Within'' is that he evolved and he was probably looking back and thinking he would have composed it a little different now...
gybemm 2 months ago
Gould brings it to next level at 1:53
DritteWalpurgisnach 2 months ago
He was out of his mind and therefore a genius.
kebeaman 3 months ago
@kebeaman reminds me of the arguments in the holy grail of monty python:D
agniky 2 months ago
How must he have felt knowing he was nowhere near Bach as a composer.. poor bastard.
PorroFirst 4 months ago
@PorroFirst You are a fucking idiot... How does Bach feel he was nowhere near Mozart as a composer.. poor bastard.
BeBopDeluxe85 3 months ago
@BeBopDeluxe85 Bach didn't know about Mozart.
PorroFirst 3 months ago 4
@PorroFirst Exactly .. my comment made no sense like yours.
BeBopDeluxe85 3 months ago
@BeBopDeluxe85 I was talking about Gould - how he must have felt knowing he was nowhere near Bach as a composer.. that makes perfect sense.
PorroFirst 3 months ago
@PorroFirst Yes.. because you know the will and mind of Gould. You are making an assumption based on your own speculation..
BeBopDeluxe85 3 months ago
@BeBopDeluxe85 Yes I am. I am feeling his pain precisely in this video.
PorroFirst 3 months ago
@PorroFirst Based on previous experiences with your stupidity, I'd say you are wrong.
BeBopDeluxe85 3 months ago
@BeBopDeluxe85 speculation is the best we have ;)
cybermental 1 month ago
what a genius. this is someone i would have very much liked to know.
chrismerriil1974 7 months ago
haha brilliant
bishopquack 7 months ago
yeah I wanna write a fugue! I mean... why not... if you play it, you should at least experience what the other side is like, the writing of it
katiush65 1 year ago
I am realizing more and more how much one of my peers reminds me of Glenn, its scary. He looks like Glenn, has the same mannerisms, talent(however my classmate plays the sax as well as the piano). whew..
Meashayshay2 1 year ago
It's quite endearing seeing him be shy about the applause at the end, but thinking about it, Gould probably scripted the whole thing. Do you think it was scripted?
VamLoveAndKisses 1 year ago 3
I wish he composed more. I *really* enjoy this piece (and so do my kids!)
podx990 1 year ago
Bach wrote his music to praise God. Not sure if Bach was a truly devout man but he did write MANY of his pieces for the specific purpose of playing them during church service.
modulomath 1 year ago
@modulomath Well he only wrote that material because it was required of him by his employer, the church, which was pretty much the only employer back then. If he had been working for a secular employer, we might well have seen "The evolutionary oratorio" instead of the Christmas one!
arngrimur2 1 year ago
@arngrimur2 Thanks for explaining the obvious to everyone, and if he had been a buddhist he "might" have written more tunes for chanters and gong...
modulomath 1 year ago
@modulomath Well given your comment it wasn't obvious to you.
arngrimur2 1 year ago
@arngrimur2 No, in fact, you're an idiot.
modulomath 1 year ago
@modulomath 1 month later? Really?
arngrimur2 1 year ago
@modulomath Well you know what they say about arguing on the internet is like running in the special olympics: Even if you win, your still retarded. Later dude.
arngrimur2 1 year ago
@arngrimur2 Oh, oh, you got me, I cry now.
modulomath 10 months ago
Amor eterno.
vitrolazul 1 year ago
I wonder why didn't the interviewer turn it off when he was asked?
MellowCypriot 1 year ago
I'm so glad he said that because I once told my teacher that playing a fugue was like doing cross word puzzles while standing on my head.
drivenhome 1 year ago
Its funny because he knows the technicalities in yet you want to technically press the point that he cannot be called a composer because he never wrote fugue..lol. Whatever, I dont know..There is something about him that is special regardless of what you want to say. All the same, I can see what your getting at i think...
AbsintheColour 1 year ago
Artiste incommensurable, et en plus, quel charme! Il est beau!
aydin84000 1 year ago
" so you want to write a fugue, you've got the urge to write a fugue, you've got the nerve to write a fugue that we can sing"
van képed fúgát írni? :-)
Whyolin 1 year ago
beautiful eyes...and really crazy spark in them...
gitaclick 1 year ago 4
GENIUS
renanludy 1 year ago
Glenn Gould is without a doubt a musical genius. However, if you see this video knowing nothing about him, you would be completely clueless as to how chaotic and neurotic this great man was. In here he looks so kind and laid back.
mrpossibilities 1 year ago
This is not to discourage composition as a process, exercise and a form of analysis. Every person engaged in the musical field should be engaged in the compositional process in order to enrich one's understanding of all music and provide the ability to construct well informed and well guided opinions/thoughts. But a composer who cannot write a fugue is tantamount to a carpenter that cannot work with wood.
bubuliboooo 2 years ago
@bubuliboooo
How ridiculous! Did Chopin ever write a fugue? He studied and admired Bach's for sure, but he certainly didn't need to write one in order to communicate his ideas in the great number of genres that he composed in.
rhapsodyinblue18 1 year ago
@rhapsodyinblue18
Chopin actually literally wrote a fugue. Needless to say, it was probably his most uninspired, hackneyed, stilted works he ever composed.
MoonMankkkkkk 1 year ago
@bubuliboooo
I must take back my previous comment about Chopin. Apparently he wrote a fugue in A Minor (found it on IMSLP).
rhapsodyinblue18 1 year ago
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AbsintheColour 1 year ago
@bubuliboooo Well, I wouldnt say he couldnt work with wood. I believe if he was inspired to take that path then he had the potential to do so. Would you agree? As to being referred to as a composer..Technically speaking.. i guess one could not consider him as such. hmm. Its interesting points you make. He gets praised a great deal and put up on the world stage so young. Theres not much of a doubt in my mind in regards of his intelligence. He also seemed on a very special social level to go with
AbsintheColour 1 year ago
One who cannot write a fugue does not reserve to right to refer to themselves as a composer. It matters not how many effects or numbers of isorhythms and cross-rhythms one can cram into a work, if there is not the apt level of understanding of how music functions within each epoch of history and how the past masters contributed to the evolution of music to date, one is doomed to fail to communicate any given musical idea with any level of coherence or efficacy.
bubuliboooo 2 years ago
.......chach
carrottoponcrak 1 year ago
@bubuliboooo
Understanding how music functions (in every era of music) is no doubt important, but it is not equivalent to being able to write a fugue.
rhapsodyinblue18 1 year ago
it warms my heart to know that when this video is playing the only petty thing going through our mind is religion. shut the fuck up and listen to the master. if you want to argue religion then its an uphill battle. an atheist cant convert a christian. a christian cant convert an atheist. so enjoy the fugue
nickfromdtown1992 2 years ago 3
This man was completely out of his mind.
organman52 2 years ago 7
His eyes are so bright.
Libellebr 2 years ago 5
Un autre exemple, triste, montrant que Gould n'était pas un compositeur.
RAREpicture 2 years ago
Vraiment!
MATWrehearsals 2 years ago
@RAREpicture
What utter nonsense.
I'd be interested in hearing YOUR vocal fugue (with accompaniment), written to your own text, on the technicalities of fugal writing to see how much of a composer YOU are.
JekyllBoote 2 years ago
@JekyllBoote lolol as a composer myself, this is one form i KNOW i couldnt write in, even though i understand the anatomy of a fugue and have played many of Bach and Mozart, i dont have the ability to write it
Doug19752533 2 years ago
Oh Glenn Gould my platonic love
camilalareina 2 years ago 4
@camilalareina
No! No! Hands off! He's mine!
lilythepink123 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
such music is meant to be applied to the praise of God
iorixs 2 years ago
Actually, the church tried to ban polyphony on more then one occasion.
shaerens 2 years ago
ONLY? Who said? YOU? Are YOU the Voice Of God(tm) now? Can I see your license to be the Voice Of God?
sina4 2 years ago
relax
iorixs 2 years ago
Indeed, you should relax. If you can.
sina4 2 years ago
00:50 - "umm, this is rather good actually"
eeClaytonification 2 years ago
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iorixs fuck off, and bring ur useless god with you
you're insulting music, ignoramus
Stehnz 2 years ago
why be so hostile. relax
iorixs 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
every bach/gould video is FLOODED by stupid believers
god, santa claus, the loch ness, no difference
actually people who believe in god have to be the stupidest part of humanity
Stehnz 2 years ago
@Stehnz
You may or may not have realized this, but the phrase "stupid believers" (along with your last sentence) is quite the generalization.
Just FYI. ^_^
rhapsodyinblue18 1 year ago
@Stehnz Your atheism is folly. Thank God for Glenn Gould.
rumpranger65 1 year ago
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People kill and do a lot of bad things with god in their mouth, so better leave god alone, I think He could live very well without us human beings doing silly things for Him.
TheBarbaciano 2 years ago
your god is a boring fiction
Bzakatron 2 years ago
a lot of people are of that opinion these days
iorixs 2 years ago
@iorixs
Bach would agree (SDG), but...
Not necessarily! Did Glenn Gould say: "I wrote this for the glory of God."
rhapsodyinblue18 1 year ago
gould looking more like a hearth-throb than ever...
Bolinas1971 2 years ago 3
To ThisIsMe113 :
Gould was 42.
klinsha8 2 years ago
Gould is a genious.
mikejunior80 2 years ago 31
@mikejunior80 you obviously aren't lol! Learn to spell!
redviolinistuk 1 year ago
what did Gould say at 1:32 ?
Askelairlines747 2 years ago
the one who speaks is glenn gould?
alexilmagnifico 2 years ago
how old was glenn here?
ThisIsMe113 2 years ago
any singers out there want to try & sing it? i have sheet music .. need at least one mezzo/ tenor/ bass .. (we will have to imagine GG presiding)
ilanetta 2 years ago 2
I would really love to. I'm in a great choir with great singers, I'm a tenor and can get the others. I study in a conservatory of music, so I can get the string players too!
josesolismusic 2 years ago
I'll play, cello! Haha
Kurtyoungblood 2 years ago
Isn't this the fugue from "Christ lag in Todesbanden" BWV 4?
daandwars 3 years ago
not quite. but more like its deriverative
jackeddemon 2 years ago
I had this with the words, but youtube yanked it, due to Canadian copy right laws too bad it was a hoot and a keeper!
PerrrfictKats 3 years ago
how beautiful and sad - sad that he's gone, beautiful that he is still here.
ilanetta 3 years ago 5
beautifully put!
jwang32 2 years ago
oh beautiful
sunarain 3 years ago 6
beautifull
thegoddescomposer 3 years ago 2
And he's cute and charming, moreover. Blessed man.
klinsha8 3 years ago 10
He is..gorgeous!
macabre90 3 years ago 8
does anyone know where the actual song is on here
mikey6778 3 years ago
that's it...he wrote it.
lilcomposer 3 years ago 2
I think its funny how the interviewer doesn't really seem to know much about music
ijuh22 3 years ago
Bruno Monsaingeon was an amateur pianist and he actually knew a lot about music. You can read other interviews with Glenn Gould
dewvey 2 years ago
No, he was a violinist, and better than amateur.
vitesenzafine 2 years ago
being amateur has nothing to do with skill, it's just that you doesn't live of it..
FredeGF 2 years ago
OK, but this is not XIX century anymore, and I don't know of many amateurs nowadays who could live off their musical skills. Other than this, what I meant was that Monsaingeon had been a professional violin player.
vitesenzafine 2 years ago
he's saying it's an error!
shit musicians should be erroneous
tutu1100 3 years ago 3
"You've got to hear my magnificent stretto, SHHH!"
LOL! What a guy.
PTfan54 3 years ago 13
It's interesting how almost embarrassed and uncomfortably he reacts when it's over and the applause starts.
bsartist 3 years ago 47
TURN THAT THING OFF !haha
SlikkTim 3 years ago
Fantastic!!
JSBachLover 3 years ago 3
oh hes so proud. like talking about one of his children or something. awesome!! thanks!!
kenkim5 3 years ago 6
i never saw this one before
great !
PhilippeLernould 3 years ago