History

Glenn Herbert Gould is born in Toronto at 32 Southwood Drive. His father is Russell Herbert (Bert) Gould (1901-1996); his mother was born Florence Emma Greig (1891-1975).

Begins piano lessons with his mother, after his musical gifts including perfect pitch become apparent.

First documented public performances, at church events in Uxbridge.

First music competition at the Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto.

Radio debut in a public revue entitled “Today’s Children”.

First documented performance as a conductor, where Glenn Gould led a church song service in Uxbridge.

Begins Grade 2 at Williamson Road Public School.

Takes first piano examination at the Toronto Conservatory of Music in Grade 3 piano.    

Creates The Daily Woof—The Animals Paper, a handwritten manifesto. 

Completes  A Merry Thought, his earliest surviving piano composition. 

Begins organ lessons with Frederick C. Silvester and continues to study with him until 1949. 

Composes Our Gifts, for boys and girls’ voices with piano, dedicated “to the Junior Red Cross throughout Canada”.  Sells piece for 10 cents. 

Begins studying piano with Alberto Guerrero (1866 – 1959) at the Royal Conservatory of Music. 

Wins several prizes in the inaugural Kiwanis Music Festival, and later performs in public concerts of prize winners. 

Wins several prizes in the second annual Kiwanis Music Festival and later performs in public concert which is broadcast on CFRB on March 10. 

Passes, with the highest honours the Toronto Conservatory of Music’s Associate diploma piano examination. 

Begins Grade 9 at Malvern Collegiate Institute. 

Performs the first movement from Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, with his teacher, Alberto Guerrero, accompanying on a second piano, in a conservatory concert. 

Professional Performance debut:  performs organ works in a program with two other performers and a choir at Eaton Auditorium.    

Orchestral début: first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, with Ettore Mazzoleni conducting the Toronto Conservatory Symphony, in Massey Hall, as part of a conservatory concert. 

Receives his Associate diploma, and performs at the conservatory’s graduation exercises at the University of Toronto. 

Professional concerto début: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, with Bernard Heinze conducting the Toronto Symphony, in Massey Hall. 

First full-length piano recital, at the conservatory, in a program of works by Haydn, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Mendelssohn. 

Professional recital début at Eaton Auditorium.  Program includes works by Scarlatti, Beethoven, Couperin, Chopin, Liszt, and Mendelssohn (he earns $250). He is now managed by Walter Homburger, who will represent him through 1968. 

First professional concert outside Toronto: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, in Hamilton, with Ernest MacMillan conducting the Toronto Symphony. 

Home Recordings begin (family acquires early tape recorder). 

Completes Rondo in D Major, for piano. 

Discovers the music of Schoenberg through his teacher, Guerrero, and soon becomes a devoted, lifelong champion of Schoenberg’s music and his school. 

Composes and performs a suite of four pieces as an overture to a Malvern production of Twelfth Night. 

Performs concerts in Toronto and begins to publicly champion the music of Bach and twentieth century composers. 

Composes 5 Short Piano Pieces. 

Composes Sonata for Bassoon and Piano. 

CBC Radio Debut, sonatas by Mozart and Hindemith, at the age of 18. 

Presents “Recital of Contemporary Music” which includes works composed by Hindemith, Krenek, Morawetz (the première of his Fantasy in D), and himself. 

Composes Prelude, Cantilena and Gigue, for clarinet and bassoon. 

Delivers a commemorative lecture about Schoenberg at the Conservatory, shortly after his death. .

Composes Two Pieces, for piano 

First tour of Western Canada which includes performances in Vancouver and Calgary.

Ends piano lessons with Guerrero. 

Composes Three Fugues on One Subject (only No. 2 survives) 

Forms a legally registered company, New Music Associates, with his childhood neighbor and friend Robert Fulford, to present concerts. 

CBC Television Debut.  Performs a movement of a Beethoven concerto. 

Performs Beethoven on CBC Radio’s Distinguished Artist Series (First of three programs).

Schoenberg Memorial Concert, presented by New Music Associates (Glenn Gould’s company), at the conservatory.

Distinguished Artist Series:  Glenn Gould performs Beethoven (2nd of three programs).

Distinguished Artist Series:  Glenn Gould performs Beethoven (final installment of three programs).

CBC Concert Hall:  Glenn Gould Performance .

Montreal debut recital.  Performs Gibbons, Bach, late Beethoven, late Brahms and Berg.

Appears at the inaugural Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

First Commercial Recording - Berg: Sonata; 3 Russian works with violinist Albert Pratz; is released through Hallmark RS3 and includes Gould’s own liner notes.

Conservatory lecture on Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto.  Gould’s first significant writing piece to survive.

Canadian premiere of Schoenberg’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, with Jean-Marie Beaudet conducting the CBC Symphony.

Discovers 1895 Chickering baby-grand piano whose action comes to represent an ideal for him.  He stores it at the family cottage and then moves it to his apartment in the early 1960s.

Bach’s Partita No. 5 and Morawetz’s Fantasy in D.  (Radio Canada international transcription disc).

Concert organized by New Music Associates, at the conservatory, featuring works by Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, and Gould’s program essay, “A Consideration of Anton Webern.” 

Concerts include Montreal, Brantford and Toronto.

Glenn Gould’s first public performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

Performs Beethoven chamber music with the violinist Alexander Schneider and the cellist Zara Nelsova.  From CBC Television’s program, “Summer Festivals”. 

First concert performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations during an all-Bach concert organized by New Music Associates at the conservatory.

Montreal Symphony début: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, including the première his own cadenzas for the first and third movements.

The earliest surviving television performance footage:  The first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, including Gould’s own cadenza, with Paul Scherman conducting the CBC Symphony Orchestra.  From Radio-Canada’s program, “L’Heure du concert.” 

American debut recital at the Phillips Gallery in Washington, D.C.  Performs works by Sweelinck, Gibbons, Bach, Webern, Beethoven and Berg.

New York City debut at Town Hall.  The following morning, Columbia Masterworks offers Gould a recording contract; he signs in the spring and remains exclusive to the label throughout his lifetime. 

Records Bach’s Goldberg Variations at Columbia’s 30th Street Studio in New York City.

Appears at Stratford Festival.

Finishes composing his String Quartet, considered to be Gould’s only major work.

Tribute to Thomas Mann, Glenn Gould performs Beethoven: Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op 11.

Bach:  Goldberg Variations is released by Columbia Masterworks, to almost universal critical and popular acclaim.  Liner notes on the back cover were written by Gould.

Gordon Parks photo-essay, “Music World’s Young Wonder” appears in Life magazine.

CBC television (Graphic): interview.

Glenn Gould radio Interview with Eric McLean.  Glenn Gould in casual conversation and performing the piano.

“The Genius Who Doesn’t Want to Play”, by Gladys Shenner with photos by Paul Rockett appears in Maclean’s magazine.

First performance of Glenn Gould’s String Quartet, by the Montreal String Quartet.

Jock Carroll’s photo essay, “I Don’t Think I’m at All Eccentric” appears in Toronto Telegram’s “Weekend Magazine”.

Presents mixed program of mostly twentieth century music at Stratford Festival, which includes his String Quartet.

Beethoven: Sonatas Opp. 109 – 111 is released by Columbia Masterworks.

“The Dodecacophonist’s Dilemma,” Gould’s first published article, appears in the inaugural issue of Canadian Music Journal.

Concert appearances include Mount Lebanon, PA; Watertown, CT; Toronto; Montreal; Delaware, OH; New York; Dallas; Niagara Falls; Hamilton’ Spokane; Vancouver; Winnipeg and St. Louis.

Brahms Piano Quintet, with the Montreal String Quartet appears on Radio Canada’s transcription disc.

New York Philharmonic début, in Carnegie Hall, with Leonard Bernstein conducting, in Beethoven’s Concerto No. 2.

Concerts in Burlington, VT, Quebec City, Brockville, ON, San Francisco, Pasadena, and Victoria.

Performs Bach’s Partita No. 5 (part) and conducts Maureen Forrester in “Urlicht” from Mahler’s Symphony No. 2.  From CBC’s television program, “Chrysler Festival”.

Cleveland Orchestra début, with George Szell conducting, in Beethoven’s Concerto No. 2.

Two-week tour of the Soviet Union, making Glenn Gould the first North American pianist to appear since the death of Stalin: three scheduled concerts in Moscow (May 7, 8, and 11), three in Leningrad (May 14, 16, and 18), and unscheduled lecture-recitals on the music of the Second Viennese School at the conservatories in both cities (May 12 and 19).

Berlin Philharmonic début, with Herbert von Karajan conducting, in Beethoven’s Concerto No. 3.

Recital at the Vienna Festival.

CBC Radio interview with Ted Viets in Vienna.

“Return of a Prodigy” interview conducted at the family cottage on Lake Simcoe. From CBC’s television program “Newsmag”.

Concerts in Montreal, Toronto, Washington, Syracuse, Rochester, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, New York, and Miami.

Conducts the CBC Vancouver Orchestra in Mozart’s Symphony No. 1 and Schubert’s Symphony No. 4.

Bach: Concerto No. 1, and Beethoven: Concerto No. 2, with Leonard Bernstein conducting the Columbia Symphony is released on Columbia Masterworks.

Address and Music for the Queen.  Performs the second and third movements of J.S. Bach’s Concerto No. 5 in F Minor for Piano and Orchestra.   CBC Orchestra appears under the direction of Geoffrey Waddington.

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH:  Concerto for Piano (Harpsichord) and Orchestra, No 1 BWV 1052 in D Minor.

Bach: Partitas Nos. 5 and 6, and Fugues 9 and 14 from Book 2 of The Well-Tempered Clavier is released through Columbia Masterworks.

Concerts in Philadelphia, New Orleans, Buffalo, Kingston, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Vancouver, Tacoma, New York, Boston, Montreal, Lexington, Ottawa, Ann Arbor, and Toronto.

Rehearsal footage, from Glenn Gould:  Off The Record.

Haydn:  Sonata No. 59 and Mozart: Sonata K. 330 and Fantasia and Fugue K. 394 released by Columbia Masterworks.

Interview with Hugh Thomson on CBC Radio’s “Assignment Series”.

Appears at the inaugural Vancouver International Festival.

Tour of Western Europe: Salzburg, Brussels, West Berlin, Sweden (one concert, four radio recitals), and Wiesbaden.

Bach: Concerto No. 5, and Beethoven: Concerto No. 1, with Vladimir Golschmann conducting the Columbia Symphony is released by Columbia Masterworks.

Illness forces Gould to cancel several performances and hole up at the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten in Hamburg.

European tour resumes:  Florence, Turin, Rome, and Israel, giving 11 concerts in 18 days.

Berg: Sonata; Krenek: Sonata No. 3; and Schoenberg: 3 Piano Pieces, Op. 11 released by Columbia Masterworks.

“‘I’m a child of nature’—Glenn Gould,” interview with Dennis Braithwaite appears in Toronto Daily Star. 

Recital in West Berlin and a cycle of the concertos at a Beethoven festival in London, with Josef Krips conducting the London Symphony. 

Filming, at Lake Simcoe and in New York, of two documentaries for the National Film Board of Canada: Glenn Gould: Off the Record and Glenn Gould: On the Record (released 1960). 

Western Europe tour which includes two taped recitals for the BBC in London, and concerts at festivals in Salzburg and Lucerne.  Bach’s D Minor Concerto, with Herbert von Karajan conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Lucerne Festival, is his last public performance outside North America. 

Tapes interview with Alan Rich from KPFA Radio, Berkeley, CA.

Performs two concertos (Schoenberg and Bach) with the Cleveland Orchestra; contributes a long program essay on Schoenberg; delivers a lecture to the orchestra’s women’s committee, and offers the American début of his String Quartet.

“At Home with Glenn Gould,” – CBC Radio interview with Vincent Tovell. (Project 60).

While visiting the offices of the Steinway & Sons piano firm in New York, Gould is greeted by a piano turner William Hupfer, and later claims that Hupfer injured his left shoulder. The case is later settled out of court.

Gould incorporates a private company to represent his artistic ventures, Glenn Gould Limited. 

Beethoven: Concerto No. 3, with Leonard Bernstein conducting the Columbia Symphony is released by Columbia Masterworks.

American television debut (CBS “Ford Presents”) as part of the program “The Creative Performer,” performing the first movement of Bach’s D-minor concerto, with Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic. 

“Apollonian,” profile by Joseph Roddy, in The New Yorker. 

Discovers a Steinway grand piano designated “CD 318,” and finds it ideal for his purposes. Steinway gives it over to his exclusive use, and most of his recordings from 1960-81 are made on it. Over the years, he modifies its action and tone to suit his particular style and repertoire. 

Bach: Partitas Nos. 1 and 2, and Italian Concerto is released by Columbia Masterworks.

Appears in all-Bach and all-Beethoven concerts as an artist-in-residence at the Stratford Festival. 

Appears at the Vancouver International Festival; the third concert is an all-Schoenberg lecture-recital. 

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 (The Tempest) from “Glenn Gould in Recital”.

Gould:  String Quartet with the Symphonia String Quartet is released by Columbia Masterworks.

“Bodky on Bach,” Gould’s first published book review appears in Saturday Review.

Canadian concert première of Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto, with Walter Susskind conducting the Toronto Symphony. 

The Subject is Beethoven, Gould’s first thematic special for television.

Brahms:  10 Intermezzi is released by Columbia Masterworks.

Appears in all-Brahms, all-Strauss, and all-Bach concerts at the Stratford Festival, as one of three co-directors of music (with the violinist Oscar Shumsky and the cellist Leonard Rose). 

Vancouver International Festival appearances include a lecture-recital before an audience of children, an all-Bach concert, and a performance of Brahms’s D-minor Concerto with Zubin Mehta conducting.

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4, with Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic is released by Columbia Masterworks. 

Interview with Bernard Asbell, in Horizon. 

Music in the U.S.S.R appears on CBC Television’s program “Sunday Concert” with Gould as performer and commentator. 

Concerts in Baltimore, Oakland, Berkeley, Winnipeg, Portland, OR, Cleveland, New York, Toledo, Columbus, Chicago, Lexington and South Bend. 

“Let’s Ban Applause!” appears in High Fidelity/Musical America. 

10 Minutes with Glenn Gould, interview with Vincent Tovell. 

Performs Brahms’ D Minor Concerto with Leonard Bernstein and the New YorkmPhilharmonic.  Bernstein gives pre-concert speech saying that he and Gould are not in complete agreement with the about to be heard musical interpretation, which provokes some criticism in the press.   Recorded live in New York. 

Sunday Concert: Glenn Gould on Bach, with Gould as performer and commentator appears on CBC Television’s program, “Sunday Concert”. 

Strauss, Enoch Arden, with Claude Rains, speaker is released by Columbia Masterworks.

Bach, The Art of Fugue, Vol. 1 with Glenn Gould performing on the organ, is released by Columbia Masterworks. 

Mozart: Piano Concerto K. 491 and Schoenberg Piano Concerto with Walter Susskind and Robert Craft conducting the CBC Symphony, released by Columbia Masterworks. 

As a co-director of the Stratford Festival, appears in all-Bach, all-Hindemith, and all-Mendelssohn concerts, and serves as performer and commentator in a controversial program entitled “Panorama of Music of the 20’s”. Also organizes and writes program notes for a concert on July 13, “The Schoenberg Heritage". 

(CBC Wednesday Night): Arnold Schoenberg: The Man Who Changed Music.

David Ostwald – Recorded Interview. 

Aaron Copland – Recorded Interview.

Goddard Lieberson – Recorded Interview.

Gertrude (Kolisch) Schoenberg – Recorded Interview. 

Performs the Brahms D Minor Piano Concerto in Baltimore and explains his interpretation in a program essay, “N’Aimez-vous pas Brahms?” 

Richard Strauss: A Personal View, with Gould as performer and commentator appears on CBC Television’s program, “Festival”. 

Concerts in Atlanta, Detroit, Cincinnati, Kansas City, and Louiseville. Around this time, he stops flying and agrees to travel only by car or train. 

“The Odd, Restless Way of Glenn Gould,” an interview with Betty Lee, appears in The Globe Magazine. 

Concerts in San Francisco, Denver, and Rochester. 

Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Nos. 1-8 is released by Columbia Masterworks.

The Anatomy of the Fugue, with Gould as performer and commentator is broadcast on CBC Television’s “Festival” program. As a “finale” for this program, Gould composes So You Want to Write a Fugue?, a short, humorous piece for four voices and string quartet.

“Arnold Schoenberg: A Perspective” is delivered as one of the inaugural Corbett Music Lectures at the University of Cincinnati.     

“Music in the U.S.S.R” lecture is delivered at a Kiwanis Club meeting in Toronto. 

“Forgery and Imitation in the Creative Process,” “A Perspective on Arnold Schoenberg”and “Music in the U.S.S.R.” lectures are presented at the inaugural MacMillan Lectures at the University of Toronto.

Appears in all-Bach and all-Russian concerts and writes program notes for a July 21 concert of music by Schoenberg and Strauss at Stratford Festival. 

Bach: Partitas Nos. 3 and 4, and Toccata in E Minor released by Columbia Masterworks. 

Bach: Six Partitas re-released by Columbia Masterworks.

Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Nos. 9-16, released by Columbia Masterworks.

“The History of the Piano Sonata,” a two part lecture, is given at Hunter College, New York and then repeated at the Gardner Museum in Boston. 

“The Zany Genius of Glenn Gould,” profile by Alfred Bester, in Holiday. 

“The Music of Proteus: Being Some Notes on the Subjective Character of Fugal Form,” published in HiFi/Stereo Review, accompanied by an inserted recording of So You Want to Write a Fugue?. 

Last public concert: Recital at Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles. Glenn Gould abandons live performance altogether, trading the stage for the precision of the studio.  Throughout the rest of his life, he shares his litany of musical, temperamental, and moral objections to the concert hall, through interviews, articles, and broadcasts. 

Composes a humorous madrigal for four voices with piano, for a testimonial dinner in New York honoring the Columbia Records executive Goddard Lieberson; makes a private recording of the piece on July 3. 

Receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Toronto, and delivers the convocation address, “An Argument for Music in the Electronic Age” (published in December in the Varsity Graduate). 

(Festival): Concerti for Four Wednesdays, Program No. 1, “Anthology of Variation,” with Gould as performer and commentator. Directed by Vincent Tovell.

Bach: Two- and Three-Part Inventions released by Columbia Masterworks. 

Delivers a Corbett Music Lecture at the University of Cincinnati – “The Music of Russia”. 

Last public lecture:  an address to the graduating class of the Royal Conservatory of Music, which is then published in the conservatory’s Bulletin.   

Recorded Interview with Pat Moore, for the Russian Section of the CBC’s International Service (broadcast in Moscow early in 1965). 

Gould’s long-time friend, John P.L. Roberts, becomes supervisor of the CBC’s English Service and encourages Gould to do more adventurous work. 

CBC radio (CBC Sunday Night): Dialogues on the Prospects of Recordings, documentary from CBC Sunday Night. A revised version of the text, published as “The Prospects of Recording” in High Fidelity (April 1966), is his magnum opus on the subject of recording. 

Contributes three articles to High Fidelity/Musical America under the pseudonym “Herbert von Hochmeister.” 

Beethoven: Sonatas Op. 10/Nos. 1-3 released by Columbia Masterworks.

Travels by train from Winnipeg to Churchill, MB, inspired by his lifelong love of the Canadian North. (A desire to mine that experience creatively will yield, in 1967, his first experiment in a new kind of radio art.) 

Records first album, Schoenberg Songs, with producer Andrew Kazdin, with whom he will work for the next 15 years. 

Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Nos. 17-24 released by Columbia Masterworks.

Conversations with Glenn Gould (Humphrey Burton):  Bach.

Conversations with Glenn Gould (Humphrey Burton):  Beethoven.

Conversations with Glenn Gould (Humphrey Burton):  Schoenberg.

Conversations with Glenn Gould (Humphrey Burton):  Strauss.

Beethoven: Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”), with Leopold Stokowski conducting the American Symphony is released by Columbia Masterworks. 

Schoenberg: The Complete Music for Solo Piano is released by Columbia Masterworks. 

Glenn Gould and Yehudi Menuhin in CBC’s Festival program “Duo”. 

Schoenberg: Complete Songs for Voice and Piano, Vol. 1, with Donald Gramm, bass-baritone, Ellen Faull, soprano, and Helen Vanni, mezzo-soprano, released by Columbia Masterworks.

Interview with Alex Trebek, from (Intertel): “The Culture Explosion”. 

The Art of Glenn Gould, a 24-part weekly series devoted to his discography. The first installment, “On Records and Recordings,” is one of his seminal statements on the subject. 

The Art of Glenn Gould series:  On Records and Recording.  The second in a series of twenty-four programs. 

“The Psychology of Improvisation,” documentary featured on the CBC program, Ideas. 

The Art of Glenn Gould series:  On Records and Recording.  The third in a series of twenty-four programs. 

Glenn Gould in Recital – CBC Tuesday Night Series.    

The Art of Glenn Gould series:  On Records and Recording.  The fourth in a series of twenty-four programs. 

The Art of Glenn Gould series:  On Records and Recording.  The fifth in a series of twenty-four programs. 

The Art of Glenn Gould series:  On Records and Recording.  The sixth in a series of twenty-four programs. 

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The Art of Glenn Gould series:  On Records and Recording.  The eighteenth in a series of twenty-four programs. 

The Art of Glenn Gould series:  On Records and Recording.  The nineteenth in a series of twenty-four programs. 

Mozart and Beethoven (From Music for a Sunday Afternoon).

To Everyman His Own Bach: A Musical Conversation with Glenn Gould, from the CBC Festival TV Series. 

Beethoven: Sonatas Opp. 13 (Pathétique) and 14, Nos. 1 and 2, released by Columbia Masterworks.

The Art of Glenn Gould series:  On Records and Recording.  The twentieth in a series of twenty-four programs.

The Art of Glenn Gould series:  On Records and Recording.  The twenty-first in a series of twenty-four programs.

The Art of Glenn Gould series:  On Records and Recording.  The twenty-second in a series of twenty-four programs.

The Art of Glenn Gould series:  On Records and Recording.  The twenty-third in a series of twenty-four programs.

The Art of Glenn Gould series:  On Records and Recording.  The last in a series of twenty-four programs. 

Bach: Concertos, Vol. 1 (Nos. 3, 5, and 7), with Vladimir Goschmann conducting the Columbia Symphony is released by Columbia Masterworks. 

“The Search for Petula Clark,” in High Fidelity/Musical America. The text becomes the basis for an innovative CBC radio documentary (December 11, The Best of Ideas). 

Canadian Music in the 20th Century (Morawetz, Fantasy in D; Anhalt, Fantasia; and Hétu, Variations pour piano) released by Columbia Masterworks. 

“The Glenn Gould Variations”, profile by Richard Kostelanetz appears in Esquire Magazine.

Bach, Concerto No. 7, and Strauss, Burleske, with Vladimir Golschmann conducting the Toronto Symphony becomes Gould’s first color telecast.

Schoenberg, Phantasy for Violin and Piano, with Israel Baker, released by Columbia Masterworks. 

Schoenberg, Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, with John Horton, narrator, and the Juilliard String Quartet, released by Columbia Masterworks. 

“The Search for Petula Clark”, Gould’s innovative radio documentary is featured on CBC’s “The Best of Ideas” series. 

(Ideas): The Idea of North, Gould’s first “contrapuntal radio documentary,” and the first instalment in his “Solitude Trilogy”. (Released as a CBC Learning Systems LP, 1971.) 

(The World of Music): serves as host and commentator for 6 programs. 

Records Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 78, which is released posthumously, 1993. 

Beethoven-Liszt, Symphony No. 5 released by Columbia Masterworks. 

Glenn Gould: Concert Dropout, recorded interview with John McClure, released by Columbia Masterworks as a bonus disc. 

Mozart:  Sonatas, Vol. 1: K. 279-283, released by Columbia Masterworks. 

Bach:  The Well Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Nos 1-8 released by Columbia Masterworks. 

Ronald Wilford, CAMI, becomes Gould’s manager after leaving his long-time manager, Walter Homburger. 

How Mozart Became a Bad Composer, with Gould as performer and commentator is broadcast on NET (U.S. public television). 

Anti Alea: A Study in Objections, is featured on CBC program, “Ideas”. 

Discusses the Moog Synthesizer and other topics on Sunday Supplement, a news and public-affairs show. (Moog segment released as a CBC Learning Systems cassette, 1972.) 

Gibbons, Hindemith and Haydn Recital from CBC Radio’s “Thursday Music” series.

Spheres, an animated film directed by René Jodoin and Norman McLaren for the National Film Board of Canada, features Gould playing piano.  

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op. 13 is released by Columbia Record Club.    Album is re-released as regular Masterworks album in 1970. 

Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7, and Scriabin: Sonata No. 3 ( Columbia Masterworks).

Mozart, Sonatas, Vol. 2: K. 284, 309, and 311 (Columbia Masterworks).

Telescope: Variations on Glenn Gould. (CBC Television).

The Art of Glenn Gould, a 21-part, CBC Radio Series begins.

Bach: Concertos, Vol. 2 (Nos. 2 and 4), with Vladimir Goschmann conducting the Columbia Symphony. (Columbia Masterworks).

Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, with the Juilliard String Quartet. (Columbia Masterworks).

The Latecomers, “a contrapuntal radio documentary about Newfoundland,” is the second installment in Gould’s Solitude Trilogy. (CBC Radio).

The Idea of North, Produced and Directed by Judith Pearlman, is premiered on CBC Radio.

Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Nos. 9-16. (Columbia Masterworks).

Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 5 is recorded on eight-tracks.

Television version of The Idea of North, produced and directed by Judith Pearlman premieres on CBC Television.

Beethoven: Variations WoO 80 and Opp. 34 and 35 (“Eroica”).(Columbia Masterworks).

Glenn Gould Plays Beethoven, including the “Emperor” Concerto, with Karel Ancerl conducting the Toronto Symphony. (CBC Television).

First recording session in Eaton Auditorium, Toronto.

Stokowski: A Portrait for Radio, Glenn Gould's contrapuntal radio documentary. (CBC Radio).

Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Nos. 17-24. (Columbia Masterworks).

Slaughterhouse-Five: Gould supervises a Bach-based soundtrack for the film, which is released in March 1972 by Columbia Records.

Byrd and Gibbons: Works. (Columbia Masterworks).

Glenn Gould über Johann Sebastian Bach is released in Germany.

Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3: K. 310, 330, 332, and 333. (Columbia Masterworks).

Schoenberg: Complete Songs for Voice and Piano, Vol. 2. (Columbia Masterworks).

Handel: Suites Nos. 1-4. (Columbia Masterworks).

The Scene , a CBC television program, includes Glenn Gould performing as several fictional characters.

Grieg, Sonata in E Minor; Bizet, Premier Nocturne and Variations chromatiques. (Columbia Masterworks).

Bach: French Suites Nos 1-4. (Columbia Masterworks).

Beethoven: Sonatas Op. 31, Nos. 1, 2 (“Tempest”), and 3.(Columbia Masterworks).

Hindemith: Sonatas, Nos. 1-3, (Columbia Masterworks). (Gould’s liner notes won a Grammy award, a year later).

Wagner/Gould: Piano Transcription of Wagner Orchestral Showpieces: Die Meistersinger, Götterdämmerung and Siegfried-Idyll. (CBS Masterworks).

Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4: K. 331, 545, and 533/494, and Fantasia K. 397. (CBS Masterworks).

Chemins de la musique's four films are recorded and air in the same year.

Casals: A Portrait for Radio, a contrapuntal radio documentary. (CBC Radio).

“The Age of Ecstasy: 1900-1910”, the first installment of Musicamera: Music in Our Time.

Bach: French Suites Nos. 5 and 6, and French Overture. (CBS Masterworks).

Bach: Viola da Gamba Sonatas, with Leonard Rose. (CBS Masterworks).

Glenn Gould's Schoenberg Series begins on CBC Radio.

“The Flight from Order: 1910-1920,” with Gould as performer and commentator, the second installment in his series Musicamera: Music in Our Time.

Beethoven: Bagatelles, Opp. 33 and 126. (CBS Masterworks).

Mozart: Sonatas, Vol. 5: K. 457, 570, and 576, and Fantasia K. 47. (CBS Masterworks).

Glenn Gould's mother passes away from a stroke.

New Faces, Old Forms: 1920-1930," Glenn Gould's third installment in his series Musicamera: Music in Our Time.

Hindemith: The Complete Sonatas for Brass and Piano, with the Philadelphia Brass Ensemble. (CBS Masterworks).

Bach: 6 Violin Sonatas, with Jaime Laredo. (CBS Masterworks).

Sibelius: 3 Sonatines and Kyllikki is mixed using “acoustic orchestration”. (CBS Masterworks).

Bach: 6 English Suites. (CBS Masterworks).

The Quiet in the Land, the third installment in Gould’s “Solitude Trilogy” is broadcast on the CBC program Ideas.

“The Artist as Artisan: 1930-1940." the fourth installment in his series Music in Our Time airs on CBC TV.

Hindemith: Das Marienleben, with Roxolana Roslak, soprano. (CBS Masterworks).

Geoffrey Payzant’s Glenn Gould, Music and Mind, is published.

The Bourgeois Hero, “a contrapuntal radio documentary” about Richard Strauss. (CBC Radio).

Bach: Toccatas, Vol. 1. (CBS Masterworks).

Glenn Gould's Toronto, part of Cities TV series is broadcast.

The Question of Instrument, directed by Bruno Monsaingeon, is filmed.

Bach: Preludes, Fughettas, and Fugues. (CBS Mastworks).

Beethoven: Sonatas Opp. 2/Nos. 1-3 and 28 (“Pastoral”). (CBS Masterworks).

The Glenn Gould Silver Jubilee Album, a two-record set comprising previously unreleased recordings. (CBS Masterworks).

Tapes "An Art of the Fugue", directed by Bruno Monsaingeon.

Tapes "The Goldberg Variations", directed by Bruno Monsaingeon.

Tapes Bach: Italian Concerto. (Last recording at Eaton Auditoriam, Toronto).

Recites an excerpt from Natsume Soseki's “Three Cornered World” on CBC's Booktime. This is Gould's last CBC radio broadcast.

Records Brahms: Ballades and Rhapsodies. (CBS Masterworks - posthumous release).

Recording of The Wars soundtrack. (CBS Masterworks - posthumous release).

Conducts and Records the chamber-orchestra version of Wagner’s Siegfried Idyl. (CBS Masterworks - posthumous release).

Records Strauss: Piano Sonata, Op. 5. (CBS Masterworks - posthumous release).

Glenn Gould suffers a stroke and is taken into hospital.

Glenn Gould passes away at 11:00 a.m. After his funeral, he is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.