Orlando Gibbons was Glenn Gould’s Favorite Composer
Glenn Gould died of a stroke on October 4, 1982, and was laid to rest in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Orlando Gibbons
He refused to play Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Debussy and much of the other core piano repertoire, deriding their masterpieces as empty theatrical gestures. He especially disliked Mozart, and named the obscure 17th century English composer Orlando Gibbons as his all-time favorite. (via)
On Orlando Gibbons
…”ever since my teen-age years this music … has moved me more deeply than any other sound experience I can think of.”
* The Glenn Gould Reader. p. 438. New York: Knopf.
(Thanks Richard Bohn for the above quote)