The Secret life of Glenn Gould: A genius in love

Of the eighteen books and nineteen documentaries by or about the most compelling virtuoso of the twentieth century, none have contained details about Gould?s many love affairs and how they affected his life, his music, and his filmmaking. Until now, biographers have tried to explain what came out of the music box, not the engine that drove it. The vault to his private life has remained locked since his untimely death in 1982 because of his obsessions with privacy and controlling his image, the loyalty of his carefully chosen friends and lovers, and the choice that biographers made to focus safely on his music and eccentricities.

The Secret Life of Glenn Gould will be the first true exposé of Gould, who until now has been assumed to be asexual, lonely, and egocentric, by examining his love and soul-mate relationships. His music was twelve-tonal and his documentaries ?contrapuntal? ? both were filled with overlapping voices ? and so was his private life.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction
1. Flora
2. Fanny and Gouldie
3. Sleeping with the pied piper
4. A proposal
5. Gladys and Cynthia
6. Overlapping voices
7. The empty seat in the audience
8. That spring in Berkeley Squareç
9. Lots of female friends
10. The beginning of a triangle
11. The music intensifies
12. Crushed by Carol
13. To Toronto
14. The Breakup
15. The voice on the radio
16. Catharsis through music
17. Transition
18. Rhapsody in Moo
19. The list
20. Monica - the link between two secret kingdoms?
21. The laugh heard around the world
22. Susan K.
23. Death
24. Whatever happened to...
Acknowledgments
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