Glenn Gould interviewed by Alan Rich, 1959

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What were Glenn Gould's influences? We are none the wiser after this 1959 interview, in which Gould throws out his usual red herring by naming Schnabel. I'm convinced he does this so that he can maintain the fiction that he was self-taught. Once again he fails to name his teacher, Alberto Guerrero, who he refers to dismissively as 'a Latin, from Chile'. Come to think of it, he didn't speak respectfully about Claudio Arrau either, so the Chileans are 0/2 in Gould's books. I once heard a later interview in which he acknowledges Tureck as an influence, and this seems plausible.

Alan Rich interview October 30, 1959
0:00 "It certainly sells records."
5:45 Goldberg Variations
9:15 recording
11:14 influences
13:35 Guerrero “a Latin from Chile”
15:58 Bach
20:20 Rosemary Clooney's tack-hammer piano
20:47 20th century
23:19 mentions Mengelberg's Ein Heldenleben:    • R. Strauss "Ein Heldenleben" Willem Mengel...  
25:46 Webern
26:03 Boulez
27:15 Webern Piano Quintet
37:02 GG the composer
42:05 "I've written a Sonata for clarinet and piano."
45:11 “What about Canada?”
52:23 next records
52:45 "In January I'm recording the 4th Beethoven concerto with the Philadelphia orchestra"