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 (1941; earliest surviving work)
 * Our Gifts, for voice & piano (1943)
 * Rondo in D major, piano (1948)
 * Suite for Twelfth Night, for piano (1949; MS lost):
 * Nocturne
 * Whimsical Nonsense
 * Elizabethan Gaiety
 * Regal Atmosphere


 * Sonata for Piano (1948–50)
 * 5 Short Piano Pieces (c. 1949–50)
 * Sonata for Bassoon and Piano (1950)
 * Prelude, Cantilena and Gigue, for clarinet & bassoon (1951)
 * 2 Piano Pieces (1951)
 * Three Fugues on One Subject, No. 2 (1952)
 * String Quartet in F minor, Op. 1 (1953–55)
 * So You Want to Write a Fugue?, for 4 solo voices & piano or string quartet (1957–58)
 * Lieberson Madrigal, for 4 solo voices (1964)
 * From Chilkoot's Icy Glacier, for 4 solo voices (1967)

Unfinished, lost, and projected works

 * Variations in G minor, piano (1949)
 * 2 Pieces for organ (1950)
 * String Trio (1950)
 * [The Metamorphosis], opera based on the short story by Franz Kafka (c. 1956)
 * Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (late 1950s)
 * [Portrait of John Donne], song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano, based on John Donne's Holy Sonnets (1959–64)
 * A Letter from Stalingrad, concert aria (early 1960s)
 * Dr. Strauss Writes an Opera, opera based on the life of Richard Strauss (early to mid-1960s)
 * Sonata in E-flat major, for wind ensemble and strings (c. 1964)

Arrangements and cadenzas

 * Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 1, cadenzas to first and third movements (1954–56)
 * Handel, Prelude from Harpsichord Suite No. 1, arrangement of (1972)
 * Wagner, three transcriptions for piano (1972–73):
 * 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 (1975)
 * Strauss, Oboe Concerto, arrangement for oboe and piano (1982)

Recordings

 * String Quartet in F minor, Op. 1. The Symphonia Quartet (Kurt Loebel & Elmer Setzer - violins; Tom Brennand - viola; Thomas Liberti - cello). Columbia Records ML 5578 (1960) / Sony 88697147582 (2007).
 * Lieberson Madrigal; String Quartet in F minor, Op. 1; Two Pieces for Piano; Sonata for Bassoon and Piano; Piano Sonata (unfinished); "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 (1992).