Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist and broadcaster. Regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, he was renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Ba
Gould c. 1961
Gould with his teacher, Alberto Guerrero, at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, in 1945. Guerrero demonstrated his technical idea that Gould should "pull down" at the keys instead of striking them from above.
Gould in February 1946 with his dog, Nicky, and his parakeet, Mozart
Replica of Gould's piano chair
Orlando Gibbons was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School. The best known member of a musical family dyn
Glenn Gould
…along with some late-Romantic and modernist composers. Gould also recorded pre-Baroque composers such as Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, William Byrd, and Orlando Gibbons; Classical composers such as Haydn, Mozart, and Brahms; and 20th-century composers including Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schoenberg, Alexander Scriabin, and…
17th-century copy of a lost portrait of Gibbons by an unknown artist
James Sargant Storer's drawing of, Orlando Gibbons's baptism place, St Martin's Church, Oxford, dated sometime before its renovations in 1820
Employer of Orlando Gibbons, James I, who raised the annual salary of Gentleman of the Chapel Royal from £30 to £40 in 1604
Portrait of Charles, employer of Gibbons, as Prince of Wales after Daniel Mytens, c. 1623