Glenn Gould, a special interpreter

“The work was conceived as a modular architecture of 32 pieces, arranged following mathematical schemes and symmetries that give it so much cohesion and continuity that it has no equal in the history of music. Together with the Art of Fugue, it can be considered the pinnacle of Bach's experiments in the creation of music for keyboard instruments, both from a technical-executive point of view, and for the style that combines together high-level musical and mathematical research. " Goldberg Variations, Wikipedia (dated 30 October 2014) Even if you are not a fan of classical music, it is difficult not to have ever heard the air around which Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations are built, a work composed - originally for harpsichord - between 1741 and 1745 and published in Nuremberg by Balthasar Schmid publisher (the original title page on the side). A complex and fascinating work like this could not fail to meet the interest of thousands of performers in the following centuries. During the twentieth century, one in particular indissolubly associated his name with this work, Glenn Gould, author of genius and acclaimed interpreter of Bach, as well as other classics such as Beethoven, Mozart and the work of the authors for piano of the twentieth century. Canadian born in 1932, and died after only 50 years, Glenn Gould was a harpsichordist, organist and composer as well as pianist. He was known as much for his mastery of his technique as for his eccentric character, which he ended up denying in a series of interviews titled No, I'm not an eccentric, and which is well described in the 1993 film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould , unfortunately not available today. His interpretation of the Variations, first recorded in 1954, when the opera was already beloved by the public thanks to the previous recordings of the 1930s and 1940s, remains one of the most famous available today.