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Eugene Goossens
12+ albums
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Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens (26 May 1893 – 13 June 1962) was an English conductor and composer. Biography He was born in Camden Town, London, the son of the conductor and violinist Eugène Goossens (fils, 1867-1958) and the grandson of the conductor Eugène Goossens (père; 1845-1906). (Note: His father and grandfather spelled Eugène with a grave accent; he himself did not.) He studied music at the age of ten in Bruges, three years later in Liverpool, and in 1907 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 College of Music. He was a violinist in Thomas Beecham's Queen's Hall Orchestra from 1912 to 1915 before coming to attention as Beecham's assistant conductor with a performance of Stanford's opera The Critic (1916). In 1921 he decided to make conducting his career and founded his own orchestra. He gave the British concert premiere of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring on 7 June 1921 at the Queen's Hall with the composer present. For nearly a quarter of a century, he accepted positions at U.S. orchestras. At the invitation of George Eastman he was conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 1923 to 1931. This post also involved teaching at the Eastman School of Music. From 1931 to 1946 he succeeded Fritz Reiner as the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
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Two Studies, Op. 38: No. 1, Folk Tune - Due-Art 0333
3642Kaleidoscope, Op. 18: Nos. 1-3: Good Morning; Promenade; the Hurdy Gurdy Man - Duo-Art D906
2733Violin Concerto, Op. 63 "Phantasy": III. Largo - Più moto - Poco più mosso
1844By the Tarn, Op. 15 No.1
1695Two Studies, Op. 38: No. 1, Folk Tune - Duo-Art 0333
1456Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in One Movement, Op. 45
1377Oboe Concerto in One Movement
758Symphony No. 2, Op. 62: III. Scherzo. Giocoso
559By the Tarn, Op. 15 No. 1
4910Kaleidoscope, Op. 18: VII. The Punch and Judy Show
39albums
Goossens: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
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Eugene Goossens: Orchestral Works
Goossens: Orchestral Works
Goossens: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
Goossens: The Apocalypse, Op. 64, G. 77 (Live)
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British Tone Poems, Vol. 2
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Goossens: 4 Sketches / 3 Pictures / 5 Impressions of A Holiday / Suite / Pastorale Et Arlequinade
Goossens: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Goossens: Complete Music for Violin and Piano
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Goossens: Piano Music
Eugene Goossens: Complete Piano Music
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Nancy Ambrose King Plays Oboe Concertos by Mozart, Goossens, Vaughan Williams and Martinů