# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/glenn-gould
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:16:18.682Z

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description: "He quit the stage at 31 and never looked back. Glenn Gould treated the piano like an argument he intended to win — technically flawless, contemptuous of Romanticism, fanatical about Bach. His 1955 Goldberg Variations recording made him famous; his decision to abandon live performance made him a riddle."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Glenn Gold in Toronto on 25 September 1932, he changed the spelling and became the rarest kind of pianist: one who said no. He rejected Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Rachmaninoff — most of the Romantic canon — and built his career around Bach, Beethoven, and moderns like Schoenberg and Hindemith. He championed Orlando Gibbons above all others. By 1964 he'd stopped giving concerts entirely, retreating into the studio and the broadcasting booth, where he produced scripted television programs and three musique concrète radio documentaries about Canada's isolated places. He wrote prolifically on music theory, hummed audibly while he played, and sent a recording of Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C major into space aboard Voyager. He died in Toronto on 4 October 1982, nine days after turning fifty.