Sir eugene goossens biography

English conductor and composer (–)

For other uses, see Eugène Goossens.

Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens (; 26 May &#;&#; 13 June ) was an English conductor and composer.

Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens (/ˈɡuːsənz/; – 13 June ) was an English conductor and composer.

Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens was an English conductor and composer.

Eugene Goossens (III) was.

Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens (), conductor and composer, was born on at Kentish Town, London, eldest of five children of Eugene Goossens.

Sir Eugene Goossens was one of the most prominent of the younger British composers who emerged in the years following World War I.

Biography

He was born in Camden Town, London, the son of the Belgian conductor and violinist Eugène Goossens (fils, –) and Annie Cook, a Carl Rosa Opera Company singer.

He was the grandson of the conductor Eugène Goossens (père, –; his father and grandfather spelled Eugène with a grave accent; he himself did not). His younger sisters and brothers, all musicians, were Marie, Adolphe, Léon and Sidonie.^[1]

Eugene studied music at the age of ten in Bruges, three years later at Liverpool College of Music,^[2] and in in London on a scholarship at the Royal College of Music under composer Charles Villiers Stanford and the violinist Achille Rivarde among others.

He won the silver medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians and was made associate of the Royal