As a baby, he reportedly hummed instead of crying and wiggled his fingers as if playing chords, leading his doctor to predict that he would "be either a physician or a pianist". Hoping he would become a successful musician, she had exposed him to music during her pregnancy. Both his parents were musical, and his mother, especially, encouraged the infant Gould's early musical development.
Gould's interest in music and his talent as a pianist were evident very early. Gould had no Jewish ancestry, though he sometimes made jokes on the subject, such as "When people ask me if I'm Jewish, I always tell them that I was Jewish during the war." His childhood home has been named a historic site. The family's surname was changed to Gould informally around 1939 to avoid being mistaken for Jewish, given the prevailing anti-Semitism of pre-war Toronto. Glenn Herbert Gould was born at home in Toronto, on September 25, 1932, the only child of Russell Herbert Gold (1901–1996) and Florence Emma Gold (née Greig 1891–1975), Presbyterians of Scottish, English, and Norwegian ancestry. Gould in February 1946 with his dog and his parakeet, Mozart Though known chiefly as a pianist, Gould capped off his musical career with a recording of Wagner's Siegfried Idyll as conductor. He performed on television and radio, and produced three musique concrète radio documentaries, the Solitude Trilogy, about isolated areas of Canada. He was a prolific contributor to musical journals, in which he discussed music theory and outlined his musical philosophy. Gould was also a writer, broadcaster, composer and conductor. He stopped giving concerts at age 31 to concentrate on studio recording and other projects. Gould was known for his eccentricities, from his unorthodox musical interpretations and mannerisms at the keyboard to aspects of his lifestyle and behaviour.
Although his recordings were dominated by Bach and Beethoven, Gould's repertoire was diverse, including works by Mozart, Haydn, Scriabin, and Brahms pre-Baroque composers such as Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, William Byrd, and Orlando Gibbons and 20th-century composers including Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schoenberg, and Richard Strauss. Gould rejected most of the standard Romantic piano literature by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and others, in favour of Bach and Beethoven mainly, along with some late-Romantic and modernist composers. Gould's playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and a capacity to articulate the contrapuntal texture of Bach's music. He was one of the most famous and celebrated pianists of the 20th century, and was renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Glenn Herbert Gould ( / ɡ uː l d/ né Gold September 25, 1932 – October 4, 1982) was a Canadian classical pianist.
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