The former's content came from Bazzana's doctoral dissertation on Gould, completed under the supervision of Richard Taruskin.
[1] Wondrous Strange was nominated for the 2004 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction.
[2] Bazzana also wrote a book about Hungarian pianist Ervin Nyiregyházi, Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick (2007).
Lost Genius was a nominee for the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize.
[citation needed] Bazzana also wrote the liner notes[citation needed] for the 2007 Zenph Studios Re-Performance CD Bach: The Goldberg Variations on Sony BMG.