GG: Why f_minor?/Favorite Bach

["Anne M. Marble" <amarble@abs.net>]

> f-minor was Glenn Gould's favorite key.

GG believed that the key reflected his personality best of all.

The quote goes like this:
"...it's rather dour, halfway between complex and stable, between
upright and lascivious, between gray and highly tinted...There is a
certain obliqueness."

How much that quote *really* reflected his personality is up for
grabs. GG often claimed to be gray (or rather, grey) in personality.
But sometimes, I think he wanted to be gray -- and wasn't always gray.
(This could tie in with the whole issue of being in control.)
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Just to make sure no one gets annoyed because this post isn't about
music:
Favorite Bach (in no particular order)...

The Inventions
The Partitas
The '81 Bergs
The '55 Bergs
Also, Suite No. 6 of the English Suites (especially the last Gavottes
and the Gigue!)
Others I may have forgotten