Variations on Monday
21 November 2005 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Gould: According to a fellow student, when Glenn Gould was 16 it took him 32 hours to finger-tap the Goldberg Variations. Including the statement and re-statement of the aria, that’s an hour for each variation.
Bach:
"On Nov 6 the quondam concertmeister and organist Bach was confined to
the County Judge’s place of detention for too stubbornly forcing the
issue of his dismissal, and finally on Dec 2 was freed from arrest with
notice of his unfavourable discharge." - Court Secretary’s Report, Weimar, 1717
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