Glenn Gould - Pt. 1: Cliché (On How Mozart Became A Bad Composer)

Part 1 of a light-hearted and humorous tribute from one musical genius to another. Glenn Gould had a somewhat mixed opinion of Mozart's music: while he was renowned for his interpretations of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, his views on Mozart were not as consistently enthusiastic. Gould expressed reservations about the emotional expressiveness and the perceived emotional restraint in Mozart's music.
This unique-documentary is significant in several respects. It is the most sustained and pointed of his various public statements about his ambivalent feelings toward Mozart’s music. It marks the first time he let loose the comic side of his public persona on television and concludes with passionate performance of the K. 333 sonata, that up until now has never been released and differs significantly from his three other preserved performances of the work.
Video and audio have been completely restored from the broadcast master.
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[@jojobeanz2981]

Mozart was prolific, likely due to financial pressure to produce music constantly. Unlike Brahms, who destroyed a majority of his work, all of Mozart’s work survives to this day. I think we can all agree that the best of his compositions are truly sublime.

[@drabs4960]

Mozart has been awfully quiet since this dropped.

[@impulsesystems]

Glenn Gould is the treatment for when classical music starts to take itself too seriously. I love it.

[@matthewcarr2255]

it’s so painful to watch this because gould doesn’t understand the classical idiom at all. talking about a classical concerto by only mentioning the solo instrument fails to understand how these composer conceptualized the role of the soloist. in all of mozart’s concerti, he writes the keyboard at the

[@notrOhaoN]

How Glenn Gould made mistakes as a critic:

[@DietervonBraun1973]

is Bach not the master of the sequences and falling fifths ? And is it not possible to make any composer sound bland if you play it without any artistic conviction ? It sounds bland under Gould's fingers. That is true. With the spiritual depth and esthetic subtility of a barrel organ.

[@pierfrancescopeperoni]

Only Mozart can be bad at composing and yet able to write such a beautiful music.

[@kokomanation]

Mozart has a mathematical like structure in most of his music but he was a genius.His music is like musical Lego bricks put together producing a masterpiece.

[@chrislee518]

No lyricism to his melodic lines in his interpretations. I think he murders it.

[@rsjmd]

Interesting, Perhaps comic. Pretentious-perhaps to the point of being delusionally self-serving. GG was a great part of musical history, but, in the end, I think we must say Mozart had him beat. Perhaps GG knew this and just couldn't avoid dealing with it this way?

[@CD318]

SO incredible--Love this--thank you for posting!

[@italoimbriaci994]

Yet Mozart Requiem is an incredibly outstanding masterpiece

[@johnweligon9086]

The legendary documentary I only saw from the book... Finally got uploaded to KZbin

[@_.missberry]

I love both, Mozart and Gould ❤

[@ingemayodon5128]

Sagenhaft! Vielen Dank und LG aus Montréal, Qc, Canada

[@roel.vinckens]

It always amazed me how the "mature" Mozart pleases more in childhood and the younger Mozart gets better when one ages.

[@Amlink]

I’m so excited to see this again but in color

[@hartmutgottschalch8358]

❤Wonderfull!❤

[@mitchellschwartz6766]

I could listen to Gould perform orchestral works on that Steinway of his all day. His two-hand performance of my favorite fragment from the 1st movement of the Mozart K.491 is a perfect opening.

[@mahanmotaghiraad1790]

please part 2!!!🙏🙏🙏😘