Wondrous Strange – The Life and Art of Glenn Gould - Softcover

Bazzana, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 030011673X ISBN 13: 9780300116731

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2006

Synopsis

In this absorbing and entertaining biography, Kevin Bazzana distils twenty years' research on Glenn Gould's celebrated life as a pianist, writer, broadcaster, and composer. Looking beyond the legend of the self-taught and emotionally damaged recluse who burst onto the international musical scene in the mid-1950s but was dead at fifty, he presents a balanced portrait of a complex figure who, while uniquely gifted and genuinely eccentric, was also the product of his upbringing and surroundings.

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Review:

"There will be other books on Gould,... but I doubt if there will be one that is more thorough and entertaining than this." Times Literary Supplement "On Gould the man, Bazzana is scrupulously fair and open-minded." Sunday Telegraph "In short, anyone with the slightest interest in Glenn Gould will find Bazzana's biography thoroughly informative, full of insight and quite indispensable." BBC Music Magazine "Bazzana's excellent Wondrous Strange... cover[s] the salient facts of Gould's life while providing the fullest and most convincing portrait of the man and artist we have thus far had. Exceedingly well researched." Prospect "Well researched, well-written, intelligent and fair, Kevin Bazzana's Wondrous Strange will be seen as the definitive mainstream biography of Glenn Gould" Nicholas Spice, Publisher, London Review of Books"

About the Author:

Kevin Bazzana has a PhD in Music History and Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. He is the editor of Glenn Gould magazine and has served as editor of The Beethoven Journal. His previous book, Glenn Gould: The Performer in the Work (1997) was described as 'an outstandingly original book' and 'a model of clarity'.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 030011673X
• ISBN 13: 9780300116731
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 536