{"id":9591,"date":"2018-12-18T08:55:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T08:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=9591"},"modified":"2019-02-05T22:01:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T22:01:16","slug":"goulds-100-000-holy-grail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/piano-news\/goulds-100-000-holy-grail-9591\/","title":{"rendered":"Gould\u2019s $100.000 Holy Grail"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rare item that belonged to Glenn Gould has sold at auction in New York on December 5th for $100,000 US. The score of Bach\u2019s Goldberg Variations contains the Canadian pianist\u2019s detailed markings used while making his iconic 1981 recording of the piece.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Gould\u2019s extensive autograph contains notes and annotations on a C.F. Peters printed score, and was used during his historic 1981 recording and film of his (second) interpretation of the Goldberg Variations<\/a>– black flair pen, with orange crayon, lacking wrappers, some soiling, stray pen marks with tearing at the staples. \u201cThere\u2019s no romantic or pictorial stuff. It\u2019s really all about how to assemble tapes, microphones, and cameras\u2026 It\u2019s almost like a shooting script for a film.\u201d says Tim Page, a music critic and Glenn Gould scholar, who knew Gould personally.<\/p>\n

The 1981 recording was his last studio album, which earned him a posthumous Grammy Award in 1983, a year after his death at just 50. Since then, he has become the most famous, and controversial, interpreter of Bach\u2019s iconic work.
\nBy 1964 he had given up concertizing in favor of making records. Excessively involved in the production of his recordings he conducted his takes, constantly adjusting sound levels chasing the quality of the live moment.<\/p>\n