He dabbled in composition with few finished works. As a teenager, Gould had written chamber music and piano works in the style of the Second Viennese school. His only significant work was a string quartet, which he finished when he was in his 20s (published 1956, recorded 1960), and perhaps his cadenzas to Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1. Later works include the Lieberson Madrigal (soprano, alto, tenor, bass [SATB] and piano), and "So You Want to Write a Fugue?" (SATB with piano or string-quartet accompaniment). His String Quartet (Op. 1) was met with mixed reaction: the "Christian Science Monitor" and "Saturday Review" were quite laudatory, while the "Montreal Star" was less so. There is little critical commentary on Gould's compositions for the simple reason that there are few of them; he never succeeded beyond Opus 1, and left a number of works unfinished. He attributed his failure as a composer to his lack of a "personal voice". The majority of his work is published by Schott Music. The recording "Glenn Gould: The Composer" contains his original works.