Glen Guld Biography

He received the first lessons of music from his mother, his grandson of Edward Grieg. From the age of ten, he began to visit the classes of the Toront Conservatory, studying with Alberto Herrero on the piano and Frederick Sylvester on the organ. In the year, Guld first spoke to the audience as an organist, the next year he first played with the orchestra of the 4th concert of Beethoven, in the year he performed with the first solo concert.

Soon he became known throughout Canada thanks to his performances on radio and television. At the same time, he begins to compose music. He will debut with concerts in the United States Washington and New York, and after the first performances he is offered by the COLUMBIA Records recording company. In the year, Guld made a touring trip to the USSR, becoming the first North American musician who performed in the Soviet Union after the end of World War II; In the Soviet concerts of Gulda, the music of Bach and Beethoven sounded, as well as for many years before that, the works of Schonberg and Berg not performed in the USSR.

Guld starred in several documentaries dedicated to his work, for French, German and Canadian television. It is characteristic that in his last concert he played Kseshek along with Bach and Beethoven. Golda made by Golda a complete record of the piano works of Schounberg received highly; He recorded a number of rare piano works of Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Hindemite. At the same time, Guld expressed a sharply skeptical attitude to some of the greatest classics of piano music - in particular, he repeatedly declared his dislike for Mozart and Chopin's music, although both were present in his repertoire.

Guld's chief composer was, of course, Johann Sebastian Bach, and the most important Bakhov’s work was Goldberg Coming, which he complied with two famous notes of Goldberg Coming, performed by Gulda, are also dated years. Of the composers of the addach era, Guld appreciated Orlando Gibbons above all, calling him his favorite author. Glenn Guld possessed an outstanding pianistic technique, which is partly associated with its special landing: Guld believed that a very low position on the instrument allows him to fully control the keyboard.

Guld was famous for the clearness of the carcass even at a very high pace, especially in polyphonic works. At the same time, Guld was a sharp opponent of an entertaining virtuoso approach to music, understanding playing music as a spiritual and intellectual search. Perhaps the idea of ​​the search is also associated with the well -known ability of Guld to offer different interpretations of the same musical material each time.

Show Likes Galina Stolyarova 3 Aug at PM In addition to the records, Guld left behind several original works, including the sonata for piano, a sonata for the piano and a string quartet; These essays continue the tradition of Shenberg and the second Viennese school. In addition, Guld himself wrote the texts of the accompanying booklets to many of his records, showing in these texts a kind of humor in particular, introducing various fictitious musicians into them.

Glenn Guld was famous for his eccentricity. For example, he had the habit of mocking or humming under his breath during execution, creating certain difficulties to sound engineers of his records; Guld himself said that this happens to him unconsciously and the stronger the worse this tool serves his performing tasks. Guld refused to play differently as sitting on the same old chair made by his father now this chair was put up in the National Library of Canada under a glass cap.

Guld was very afraid of colds and even in warm weather did not take off his coats and gloves. These and other oddities in the character and behavior of Guld allowed several specialists after his death to assume that the Great Pianist suffered from a neuropsychological disease, called Asperger's syndrome during Guld’s life, this disease was not yet isolated. In the year, he was included in the Canadian Music Hall of Glory [1].

Among other things, this organization awards Glenna Gulda once every three years. The Glenn Goup School in Toronto is named in his honor in the year [2]. Glenn Goup Studio in Toronto is also named in his honor [3].