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Re: Young Gould's practicing.
From: Volker Sperber
> What did Gould actually practice
> when he was very young and only a beginner? I read that he had already
> finished WTK I by the age of only ten. Did he ever play a lot of purely
> mechanical etudes (Czerny, Brahms et al.)?
Glenn Gould passed R.C.M. examinations so he must have practised technical
exercises and Czerny type etudes.
I read somewhere that his mother signed him up for his first R.C.M. exam at
the grade IV level. He took both organ and piano exams.
Anne