Eugene Goossens

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