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Kevin Bazzana


Kevin Bazzana holds a Ph.D. in music history from the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Glenn Gould: The Performer in the Work (1997) and Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould (2003), which won the Toronto Book Award and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and has been published in six languages. He lives in Brentwood Bay, B.C.

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Wondrous Strange
Written by Kevin Bazzana

eBook | 536 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians; Music - Classical
978-1-55199-287-7 (1-55199-287-6)

February 5, 2010 | $24.99



The first major biography of Glenn Gould to stress the critical influence of the Canadian context on his life and art

Glenn Gould was not, as has previously been suggested, an isolated and self-taught eccentric who burst out of nowhere onto the international musical scene in the mid-1950s. He was, says Kevin...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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Lost Genius
Written by Kevin Bazzana

eBook | 392 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians; Biography & Autobiography
978-1-55199-184-9 (1-55199-184-5)

February 24, 2009 | $24.99



The award-winning author of Wondrous Strange, the critically acclaimed biography of Glenn Gould, explores the bizarre, untold life of another brilliant and eccentric musician.

The composer Arnold Schoenberg called him an “utterly extraordinary” pianist of “incredible originality and conviction,” yet today he is all but forgotten. Born in Budapest in 1903, Ervin...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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Lost Genius
Written by Kevin Bazzana

Trade Paperback | 392 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7710-1121-4 (0-7710-1121-0)

February 26, 2008 | $24.99



The award-winning author of Wondrous Strange, the critically acclaimed biography of Glenn Gould, explores the bizarre, untold life of another brilliant and eccentric musician.

The composer Arnold Schoenberg called him an “utterly extraordinary” pianist of “incredible originality and conviction,” yet today he is all but forgotten. Born in Budapest in 1903, Ervin...

Also available as an eBook.

book cover
Wondrous Strange
Written by Kevin Bazzana

Trade Paperback | 536 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians; Music - Classical
978-0-7710-1117-7 (0-7710-1117-2)

March 1, 2005 | $24.99



Winner of the 2005 Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography, awarded by ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers)

The first major biography of Glenn Gould to stress the critical influence of the Canadian context on his life and art.

Glenn Gould was not, as has previously been suggested, an isolated...

Also available as an eBook.