Glenn Gould

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Glenn Herbert Gould (; né Gold; 25 September 1932 – 4 October 1982) was a Canadian pianist and broadcaster. Widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time, he was renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and a capacity to articulate the contrapuntal texture of Bach's music. Gould rejected most of the Romantic piano literature by Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and others in favour of Bach and Beethoven mainly, along with some late-Romantic and modernist composers.