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Re: Young Gould's practicing.

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Subject: Re: Young Gould's practicing.
From: Anne Smith <smithqa@nexicom.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 12:48:36 -0400
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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

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- Young Gould's practicing.
  - From: Volker Sperber <Volker.Sperber@KU-EICHSTAETT.DE>

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