It’s not just Glenn Gould that’s for sale

It’s not just Glenn Gould that’s for sale

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norman lebrecht

November 05, 2018

The NY Times is acting as shill for Bonham’s coming sale of Glenn Gould’s much-decorated copy of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.  Tim Page has authenticated the manuscript.

I know a lot of people who will be more impressed by another item at the same auction house a few days earlier – an unknown Schumann draft of Fantasiestücke.

Seriously interesting.

 

Comments

  • So it’s a “manuscript” and a “copy”?

    • 18mebrumaire says:

      Presumably the manuscript element consists of the grunts, groans and semi-improvised counter-melodies singularly lacking in the 1741 print.

  • aj says:

    It is not a manuscript ,to tout it as such is deplorable .How people debase themselves for a buck !

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