glenngould.org

Some web sites and pages related to the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould (1932-1982).

• The Glenn Gould Foundation and its (archival) contrapuntal blog.
• GG at the National Library of Canada (archival).
• Wikipedia entry for GG.
• f_minor: the oldest GG mailing list.
  • (un)subscribe, change password or other options, etc.;
  • current archives;
  • older archives 1996-2009.
  • f_minor was created and hosted at Rutgers for many years by Mary Jo Watts. In April 2010, it moved here to glenngould.org.
• f_minor facebook group.
• Unheard Notes: Glenn Gould Interviews (more info).
• Further North, a blog by Penny Johnson, Canadian pianist and teacher.
• Glenn Gould, Spliced: Investigating the Filmmaking Analogy, an article by Garreth P. Broesche (Music Theory Online, vol.22, no.4, December 2016), discussing Gould's 1982 studio process of recording of the Brahms Ballade op.10, no.1, investigating every insert (splice), in light of Gould's frequent statements about using recording in a way analogous to a filmmaker creating a film.
• A Glenn Gould Tour of Toronto, by Michael Davidson.

A few recordings, books, movies, exhibitions:

• Sony.
• Glenn Gould items at the Grigorian shop in Toronto (recordings, films, books).
• Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould, a 2009 film.
• Glenn Gould Hereafter, a 2006 film by Bruno Monsaingeon.
• A Romance on Three Legs, a book by Katie Hafner.
• Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, a 1993 film by François Girard.

Drawings, images, inspirations:

• A series of reflective essays on GG by Julian Rangel, in Spanish: 2018-08-13, 2019-02-23, 2019-04-19, 2019-05-08.
• Some photos by Katherine P, ca.2008:
  • Gould's Chickering piano,
  • Gould's chair,
  • CD 318 and again CD 318, and the
  • Rideau locks in Ottawa on a cloudy Gouldian day.
  • The boulder commemorating Glenn Gould near his grave in the Mount Pleasant cemetery.
  • The Gould family monument.
• Original drawing by Maria Tauriainen.
• Original drawing4 and drawing7 by Vincent Thivet-Dargère.
• Original drawings, by Heidemarie Schäfer.
• Phone Fetishist, the Glenn Gould Factor, by Margie Borschke.
• Images from the Goldberg Variations/Strauss limited edition cd, courtesy of Bradley Lehman.
• An unusual rendition of the fugue in f minor from WTK book II, from Iori Fujita.

I'm happy to add more GG-related links. Just email me.