List of compositions by Glenn Gould
This is a chronological list of compositions by Canadian pianist and broadcaster Glenn Gould.Completed original works
- A Merry Thought, for piano
- Our Gifts, for voice & piano
- Rondo in D major, piano
- Suite for Twelfth Night, for piano :
- Sonata for Piano
- 5 Short Piano Pieces
- Sonata for Bassoon and Piano
- Prelude, Cantilena and Gigue, for clarinet & bassoon
- 2 Piano Pieces
- Three Fugues on One Subject, No. 2
- String Quartet in F minor, Op. 1
- So You Want to Write a Fugue?, for 4 solo voices & piano or string quartet
- Lieberson Madrigal, for 4 solo voices
- From Chilkoot's Icy Glacier, for 4 solo voices
Unfinished, lost, and projected works
- Variations in G minor, piano
- 2 Pieces for organ
- String Trio
- , opera based on the short story by Franz Kafka
- Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
- , song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano, based on John Donne's Holy Sonnets
- A Letter from Stalingrad, concert aria
- Dr. Strauss Writes an Opera, opera based on the life of Richard Strauss
- Sonata in E-flat major, for wind ensemble and strings
Arrangements and cadenzas
- Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 1, cadenzas to first and third movements
- Handel, Prelude from Harpsichord Suite No. 1, arrangement of
- Wagner, three transcriptions for piano :
- # Siegfried Idyll
- # Prelude to Act I of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
- # Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung
- Ravel, La valse, arrangement of the composer's piano transcription
- Strauss, Oboe Concerto, arrangement for oboe and piano
Recordings
- String Quartet in F minor, Op. 1. The Symphonia Quartet. Columbia Records ML 5578 / Sony 88697147582.
- Lieberson Madrigal; String Quartet in F minor, Op. 1; Two Pieces for Piano; Sonata for Bassoon and Piano; Piano Sonata ; "So You Want to Write a Fugue?". Claron McFadden - soprano; Marie-Thérèse Keller - mezzo-soprano; Jean-Paul Fouchécourt - tenor; Harry Van der Kamp - bass; Bruno Monsaingeon & Gilles Apap - violins; Gérard Caussé - viola; Alain Meunier - cello; Catherine Marchese - bassoon; Emile Naoumoff - piano; Nicolas Rivenq - conductor. Sony SK 47 184.
