Glenn Gould: the composer’s strategies and the music of his time as seen through his correspondence 
While Gould the piano virtuoso is well known, the composer is much less so. Nevertheless, his composerly ambitions manifested themselves very early on in ambitious composition projects—chamber music, operas, symphonies—and in his resistance to the life of a concert performer that prevented him from fulfilling this dream. His partial-retirement from the stage in 1962—two years before he was to give his last public appearance as a concert pianist—was the first step towards the realization of his lifelong dream: to become a composer and to devote himself entirely to the compositional projects that he had already initiated. This article offers a survey of the vast compositional workshop of Gould that includes his compositional activities as well as his ideas on the music of his time, as it can be seen most of all in his correspondence.