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While I can respect Gould as a performer, I cannot respect him as a musicologist at all. He claimed he disliked the later works of Mozart because they were filled with nothing more than "theatrics." If a five-voice fugue using developed themes as counterpoints is nothing more then theatrics then there is no substance achievable in music. His opinions are so erroneous and based on such untrue statements that I consider him nothing more than a set of incredibly talented hands.
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@thequantumcollapse i partly agree. but he did have anxiety and depression two terrible conditions
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"The tragedy isn't that Mozart died so young, but that he lived so long." -Glenn Gould
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速っ!
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@MaestroTJS LOL.
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@citzie p.s. As a little variation on Gould's comment about Bach's Chromatic Fantasy, this is Mozart not only for people who like Mozart but for those who don't as well :)
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Obviously Gould suffered from a very serious disability. It's called GENIUS.
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Clean, robotic and cartoonish. Feels like a Tom & Jerry Cartoon



These so-called psychiatrists that are going around putting the "Aspergers" label on every eccentric genius in history, are full of shit, and giving modern psychology a bad name.
The only "condition" that Glenn Gould had, imho, was an extraordinary vision of what music should sound like.
thequantumcollapse 1 year ago 11
Glenn Gould- the best pianist of the 20th century! A superb soloist. The man wasn't simply a slave to the piece of music he was playing. He was much too brilliant for that. He was a composer at heart! He thought exactly like a composer and it showed in everything he played. He was unlike all other of the boring pianists of his day in the sense that he had the power to not only play the music but also could interpret it. He was a creative genius. And his technique was oh so flawless. Brilliant!
burnindownthehouse 1 year ago 5