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Glenn Gould

1932 - 1982

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Glenn Herbert Gould (; né Gold; 25 September 1932 – 4 October 1982) was a Canadian classical pianist. He was among the most famous and celebrated pianists of the 20th century, renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and a capacity to articulate the contrapuntal texture of Bach's music. Gould rejected most of the Romantic piano literature by Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and others, in favour of Bach and Beethoven mainly, along with some late-Romantic and modernist composers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Glenn Gould is the 87th most popular musician (up from 90th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Canada (down from 18th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Musician.

Glenn Gould is most famous for his recordings of Bach's "The Goldberg Variations" and for his idiosyncratic style of playing the piano.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Glenn Gould ranks 87 out of 3,175. Before him are Ludovico Einaudi, Charlie Parker, Richard Clayderman, Paco de Lucía, Yehudi Menuhin, and Django Reinhardt. After him are Jamiroquai, Jon Lord, David Oistrakh, Giorgio Moroder, Nadia Boulanger, and Israel Kamakawiwoʻole.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Glenn Gould ranks 23. Before him are Anouk Aimée, Peter O'Toole, Sylvia Plath, Miriam Makeba, Fernando Botero, and François Englert. After him are Raisa Gorbacheva, Tiny Tim, Dian Fossey, Sirikit, Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner, and Benigno Aquino Jr.. Among people deceased in 1982, Glenn Gould ranks 24. Before him are Vasily Chuikov, Karl von Frisch, Erving Goffman, Stanford Moore, Louis Aragon, and Gilles Villeneuve. After him are Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Barack Obama Sr., Hugo Theorell, Gala Dalí, Georges Perec, and Hugh Everett III.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Glenn Gould ranks 20 out of 1,622. Before him are Jim Carrey (1962), Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), Michael J. Fox (1961), Erving Goffman (1922), Jack L. Warner (1892), and Gilles Villeneuve (1950). After him are Margaret Atwood (1939), Saul Bellow (1915), Marshall McLuhan (1911), Richard E. Taylor (1929), David Cronenberg (1943), and Alice Munro (1931).

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Among MUSICIANS In Canada

Among musicians born in Canada, Glenn Gould ranks 2. Before him are Leonard Cohen (1934). After him are Neil Young (1945), Joni Mitchell (1943), Oscar Peterson (1925), Avril Lavigne (1984), Gil Evans (1912), Loreena McKennitt (1957), David Foster (1949), Maynard Ferguson (1928), Deadmau5 (1981), and Robbie Robertson (1943).

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