List of compositions by Glenn Gould

Summary

This is a chronological list of compositions by Canadian pianist and broadcaster Glenn Gould.

Glenn Gould

Completed original works edit

  • A Merry Thought, for piano (1941; earliest surviving work)
  • Our Gifts, for voice & piano (1943)
  • Rondo in D major, piano (1948)
  • Suite for Twelfth Night, for piano (1949; MS lost):
  1. Nocturne
  2. Whimsical Nonsense
  3. Elizabethan Gaiety
  4. Regal Atmosphere
  • Sonata for Piano (1948–50)
  • 5 Short Piano Pieces (c. 1949–50)
  • Sonata for Bassoon and Piano (1950)
  • Prelude, Cantilena and Gigue, for clarinet & bassoon (1951)
  • 2 Piano Pieces (1951)
  • Three Fugues on One Subject, No. 2 (1952)
  • String Quartet in F minor, Op. 1 (1953–55)
  • So You Want to Write a Fugue?, for 4 solo voices & piano or string quartet (1957–58)
  • Lieberson Madrigal, for 4 solo voices (1964)[1]
  • From Chilkoot's Icy Glacier, for 4 solo voices (1967)

Unfinished, lost, and projected works edit

  • Variations in G minor, piano (1949)
  • 2 Pieces for organ (1950)
  • String Trio (1950)
  • [The Metamorphosis], opera based on the short story by Franz Kafka (c. 1956)
  • Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (late 1950s)
  • [Portrait of John Donne], song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano, based on John Donne's Holy Sonnets (1959–64)
  • A Letter from Stalingrad, concert aria (early 1960s)
  • Dr. Strauss Writes an Opera, opera based on the life of Richard Strauss (early to mid-1960s)
  • Sonata in E-flat major, for wind ensemble and strings (c. 1964)

Arrangements and cadenzas edit

Recordings edit

  • String Quartet in F minor, Op. 1. The Symphonia Quartet (Kurt Loebel & Elmer Setzer - violins; Tom Brennand - viola; Thomas Liberti - cello). Columbia Records ML 5578 (1960) / Sony 88697147582 (2007).
  • Lieberson Madrigal; String Quartet in F minor, Op. 1; Two Pieces for Piano; Sonata for Bassoon and Piano; Piano Sonata (unfinished); "So You Want to Write a Fugue?". Claron McFadden - soprano; Marie-Thérèse Keller - mezzo-soprano; Jean-Paul Fouchécourt - tenor; Harry Van der Kamp - bass; Bruno Monsaingeon & Gilles Apap - violins; Gérard Caussé - viola; Alain Meunier - cello; Catherine Marchese - bassoon; Emile Naoumoff - piano; Nicolas Rivenq - conductor. Sony SK 47 184 (1992).

References edit

  1. ^ "History – Glenn Gould". glenngould.com. Retrieved 2023-12-02.

Sources edit

  • Bazzana, Kevin. 2005. Wondrous Strange: The Life And Art Of Glenn Gould, pp. 50, 135–142, 275–284. Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195182460.
  • Bazzana, Kevin; Payzant, Geoffrey; Beckwith, John. "Glenn Gould - The Canadian Encyclopedia". The Historica Foundation. Archived from the original on 11 July 2017. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  • National Library of Canada (1992). Descriptive catalogue of the Glenn Gould papers (2 vols.). ISBN 0-660-57327-X.