The elusive labyrinth of Glenn Gould’s genius: Glenn Gould’s multifaceted paths, facets, and more or less known curiosities of a versatile pianist!

The elusive labyrinth of Glenn Gould’s genius
Glenn Gould’s multifaceted paths, facets, and more or less known curiosities of a versatile pianist!

This book is a personal and passionate tribute to the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, an enigmatic and revolutionary figure in the twentieth-century musical landscape. The project unfolds as an intimate and reflective journey into Gould’s complex personality and artistic legacy. Through thirty chapters, a clear reference to Johann Sebastian Bach’s ＂Goldberg Variations,＂ a signature work for the performer, the author presents a narrative mosaic that alternates stories, reflections, and curiosities, offering an original and accessible perspective on an artist as brilliant as he was tormented. Without claiming to exhaust Gould’s immense discography or the already vast literature about him, the book invites both expert readers and newcomers to discover or rediscover a man of profound sensitivity, capable of fascinating and disorienting with his intense music and radical choices, such as his withdrawal from the stage at only thirty-two years of age. A suggestive journey into the mind and heart of an unrepeatable talent, to be enchanted, once again, by his eternal genius at the piano.