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Glenn Gould

Childhood and Education

Part 2 of 4

Toronto Conservatory of Music examination results, grade 3 piano, February 20, 1940. The examiner was composer and pianist Ernest J. Farmer.

Toronto Conservatory of Music examination results, grade 3 piano, February 20, 1940

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Toronto Conservatory of Music examination results, grade 3 piano

Toronto Conservatory of Music examination results, grade 4 piano, June 20, 1940. Reginald G. Geen, organist and choirmaster, was the examiner.

Toronto Conservatory of Music examination results, grade 4 piano, June 20, 1940

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Toronto Conservatory of Music examination results, grade 4 piano

Toronto Conservatory of Music examination results, grade 6 organ, February 16, 1944. The examiner was another notable figure in Canadian music, Healey Willan, who gave Gould high marks.

Toronto Conservatory of Music silver medal for grade 4 piano, July 1940

Toronto Conservatory of Music silver medal for grade 5 piano, 1941

Toronto Conservatory of Music silver medal for grade 8 organ, October 1944

Gould's parents were determined to protect their gifted son from premature exposure to the professional music world. "In their household the phrase 'child prodigy' was spoken as a dark curse, if at all," according to Robert Fulford.1 Accordingly, Gould did not give a full-scale recital until he was 13. The $10 cheque from Rogers Radio Broadcasting may have been his first income from music.

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