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Re: Why people care about GG?
>Don't you think if Bach wasn't forgotten and there would be no need in a
>reviver of his piano music, there would no Gould: he would've dissolved in
>the vast ocean of other skilled pianists?
>
>Juozas Rimas
Er...when has Bach ever been forgotten since the mid-1800's
(Bach-Gesellschaft, etc.)? And the keyboard music never went out of
fashion. For example, Czerny's edition of the Well-Tempered Clavier is a
written record of the way his teacher (Beethoven) played it.
Bradley Lehman, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl
Dayton VA