Editing Glenn Gould (section)

==Transcriptions, compositions, and conducting==
{{Further|List of compositions by Glenn Gould}}
{{external media|audio1=[https://archive.org/details/lp_concerto-no-1-in-c-major-for-piano-and_glenn-gould-vladimir-golschmann-columbi/disc1/01.01.+Concerto+No.1+In+C+Major+For+Piano+And+Orchestra%2C+Op.+15%3A+I+Allegro+Con+Brio.mp3 Glenn Gould collaborating] with [[Vladimir Golschmann]] and the [[Columbia Symphony Orchestra]] in [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Beethoven)|Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15]] in 1958|audio2=[https://archive.org/details/lp_keyboard-concertos-volii-no-2-in-e-major_glenn-gould-vladimir-golschmann-columbia-s/disc1/01.02.+Concerto+No.+2+In+E+Major+For+Piano+And+Orchestra%2C+BWV+1053%3A+II+-+Siciliano+.mp3 Glenn Gould and Vladimir Golschmann] with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra in J. S. Bach's: Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in E major, BWV 1053 and Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in A major, BWV 1055 in 1969|audio3=[https://archive.org/details/lp_string-quartet-op-1_glenn-gould-the-symphonia-quartet/disc1/01.01.+String+Quartet%2C+Op.+1+(Beginning).mp3 Glenn Gould's String Quartet in F minor, Op. 1], performed by the Symphonia Quartet in 1960}}

Gould was also a prolific transcriber of orchestral repertoire for piano. He transcribed his own Wagner and Ravel recordings, as well as Strauss's operas and [[Franz Schubert| Schubert]]'s and [[Anton Bruckner|Bruckner]]'s symphonies,<ref name="archives.cbc.ca_4" /> which he played privately for pleasure.<ref name="fnK" group="fn" />

Gould dabbled in composition, with few finished works. As a teenager, he wrote chamber music and piano works in the style of the [[Second Viennese School]]. Significant works include a string quartet, which he finished in his 20s (published 1956, recorded 1960), and his [[cadenza]]s to Beethoven's [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Beethoven)|Piano Concerto No. 1]]. Later works include the [[Goddard Lieberson|Lieberson]] Madrigal (soprano, alto, tenor, bass [<nowiki/>[[SATB]]] and piano),<ref>{{Cite web |title=History – Glenn Gould |url=https://glenngould.com/history/ |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=glenngould.com |archive-date=2 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231202024059/https://glenngould.com/history/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and "[[So You Want to Write a Fugue?]]" (SATB with piano or string-quartet accompaniment). His String Quartet (Op. 1) received a mixed reaction: ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'' and ''[[Saturday Review (U.S. magazine)|Saturday Review]]'' were quite laudatory, the ''[[Montreal Star]]'' less so.{{sfn|Friedrich|1990|pp=165–166}} There is little critical commentary on Gould's compositions because there are few of them; he never succeeded beyond Opus 1, and left a number of works unfinished.{{sfn|Friedrich|1990|p=170}} He attributed his failure as a composer to his lack of a "personal voice".{{sfn|Friedrich|1990|p=172}} Most of his work is published by [[Schott Music]]. The recording ''Glenn Gould: The Composer'' contains his original works.

Towards the end of his life, Gould began conducting. He had earlier directed Bach's ''Brandenburg Concerto No. 5'' and the [[cantata]] ''[[Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54|Widerstehe doch der Sünde]]'' from the [[harpsipiano]] (a piano with metal hammers to simulate a harpsichord's sound), and [[Gustav Mahler]]'s [[Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 2]] (the ''Urlicht'' section) in the 1960s. His first known public appearance conducting occurred in 1939 when he was six, while appearing as a pianist in a concert for the Business Men's Bible Class in Uxbridge.<ref name="books.google.com">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f2ZXdsN8jaIC&q=conducting&pg=PA225 |title=''Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould''. Bazzana, Kevin. Mc Clelland and Stewart, Toronto, 2003, p. 476 on Google books.com |isbn=978-1-55199-287-7 |access-date=17 March 2023 |archive-date=12 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230912233542/https://books.google.com/books?id=f2ZXdsN8jaIC&q=conducting&pg=PA225 |url-status=live |last1=Bazzana |first1=Kevin |date=5 February 2010 |publisher=McClelland & Stewart }}</ref> By 1957 he emerged as the conductor for the CBC Television program ''Chrysler Festival'', in which he collaborated with [[Maureen Forrester]].<ref name="books.google.com"/> In the same year he also joined forces with the CBC Vancouver Orchestra as a conductor in a radio broadcast of [[Symphony No. 1 (Mozart)|Mozart's Symphony No. 1]] and [[Symphony No. 4 (Schubert)|Schubert's Symphony No. 4 ("Tragic")]].<ref name="books.google.com"/>

In 1958, Gould wrote to Golschmann of his "temporary retirement" from conducting, apparently as a result of the unanticipated muscular strain it created.<ref name="books.google.com"/> Gould found himself "practically crippled" after his conducting appearances and unable to perform properly at the piano.<ref name="books.google.com"/> Yet even at the age of 26, Gould continued to contemplate retiring as a piano soloist and devoting himself entirely to conducting.<ref name="books.google.com"/> Immediately before his death, he was finalizing plans to appear as a conductor of [[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Beethoven)|Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2]] in 1982 and in recordings of [[Mendelssohn]]'s ''[[Hebrides Overture]]'' and Beethoven's ''[[Coriolan Overture]]'' in 1983.<ref name="ZXdsN8jaIC 2003, p. 482">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f2ZXdsN8jaIC&q=conducting&pg=PA225 |title=''Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould''. Bazzana, Kevin. Mc Clelland and Stewart, Toronto, 2003, p. 482 on Google books.com |isbn=978-1-55199-287-7 |access-date=17 March 2023 |archive-date=12 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230912233542/https://books.google.com/books?id=f2ZXdsN8jaIC&q=conducting&pg=PA225 |url-status=live |last1=Bazzana |first1=Kevin |date=5 February 2010 |publisher=McClelland & Stewart }}</ref> His last recording as a conductor was of [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]]'s ''[[Siegfried Idyll]]'' in its original [[chamber music|chamber-music]] scoring. He intended to spend his later years conducting, writing about music, and composing while pursuing an idyllic "neoThoreauvian way of life" in the countryside.{{sfn|Friedrich|1990|p=315}}<ref name="ZXdsN8jaIC 2003, p. 482"/>