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Re: GG: Die Kunst der Fuge, Re: Ives Concord






>  Did GG ever play the Concord?  probably wouldn't have been
> his cup of tea, because it would be stretching things to try to reduce it
> to a contrapuntal essence (as a foundation, and as a performance approach).
>
>

I believe he read through the piece (Ive's Concord Sonata) during his teens, and
it gave him a big headache.  He mentions that somewhere in the Gould Reader, but I
can't remember which article offhand.
-Sivan Etedgee