Full name: Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations

Author: Otto Friedrich Year: 1989 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Music, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780679732075 0679732071

He was a virtuoso of the piano who inspired an almost religious fervor in his fans, yet he hated performing and left the concert stage forever at the age of 31. He was a tireless advocate of the technology of recording, an artist who looked forward to a time when mere musicians would be rendered obsolete. He was a notorious -- and, some thought, a deliberate -- eccentric, who muffled himself in scarves and gloves, liberally dosed himself with pills, and once sued Steinway & Sons because one of its employees had shaken his hand too roughly. He lived in hermetic solitude and liked to call himself "the last Puritan," but those who watched Glenn Gould play piano saw an eroticism so intense it was almost embarrassing. Drawing on extensive interviews and on archival materials that were previously inaccessible. Otto Friedrich has written a biography of exemplary depth and stylishness. Ranging over Gould's brief but spectacular public career and his prodigious exploits as teacher, author, and lecturer, his public opinions and his intensely private life. Glenn Gould; A Life and Variations does justice to a multifaceted and perverse genius. Similar books: Transformer by Victor Bockris Wondrous Strange by Kevin Bazzana Nick Drake by Patrick Humphries Shakey by Jimmy McDonough Zappa by Barry Miles Hardcore Troubadour by Lauren St. John Wild Years by Jay S. Jacobs Divided Soul by David Ritz Mozart by Wolfgang Hildesheimer Bad Seed by Ian Johnston Frank by James Kaplan Redemption Song by Chris Salewicz Lowside of the Road by Barney Hoskyns Mozart by Maynard Solomon Moon by Tony Fletcher This Is Gonna Hurt by Nikki Sixx White Line Fever by Lemmy Kilmister Light and Shade by Brad Tolinski No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins Mozipedia by Simon Goddard