Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens (; 26 May 189313 June 1962) was an English conductor and

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Biography

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He was born in Camden Town, London, the son of the Belgian conductor and violinist Eugène Goossens (''fils'', 1867–1958) and Annie Cook, a Carl Rosa Opera Company singer. He was the grandson of the conductor Eugène Goossens (''père'', 1845–1906; his father and grandfather spelled Eugène with a grave accent; he himself did not). He studied music at the age of ten in

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, three years later at Liverpool College of Music, and in 1907 in London on a scholarship at the

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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.Banfield, Stephen
'Goossens, Sir (Aynsley) Eugene'
in Grove Music Online, 2001 He was a first violin in Henry Wood's

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from 1911 to 1915 and as second violinist a founding member of the Philharmonic Quartet before coming to attention as Thomas 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; with this ensemble he made a number of gramophone records for Edison-Bell's Velvet Face label. He gave the British concert premiere of

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'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

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. During the late 1920s he often conducted for

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's American Opera Company, an organization which grew out of the Eastman School. From 1931 to 1946 he succeeded Fritz Reiner as the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. In a tribute to Goossens on his departure for

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, nine American composers collaborated on ''Variations on a Theme by Eugene Goossens'', for orchestra. The composers were

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, Aaron Copland, Paul Creston,

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, Roy Harris, Walter Piston, Bernard Rogers, Roger Sessions and Deems Taylor, with Goossens himself writing the finale. Goossens spent nine years in Australia, from 1947 to 1956. He conducted the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and other groups, and was the director of the NSW State Conservatorium of Music. He held these positions concurrently until March 1956, when he was forced to resign after a major public scandal, only a year after being

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ed.

Scandal

In the early 1950s, Goossens met

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, the so-called " Witch of Kings Cross". Norton was known as an artist of the grotesque and for her interest in the

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and erotica, which Goossens secretly shared. They conducted an intense affair, exchanging a number of passionate letters; although Goossens asked Norton to destroy all of them, she kept a bundle hidden behind a sofa. In early 1956, Goossens visited Europe, unaware that

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police were already in possession of his letters to Norton and photographs of her occult activities, which had been stolen from her flat by Sydney ''Sun'' reporter Joe Morris, who had infiltrated her supposed "

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". When Goossens returned to Australia on 9 March 1956, he was detained at

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, following a tip-off by informants in London; his bags were searched by Customs officials, who found a large amount of what was then considered pornographic material, which included photographs, prints, books, a spool of film, some rubber masks, and sticks of incense. Although he was not immediately arrested or charged, Goossens naively agreed to attend a police interview a few days later, where he was confronted with photographs of Norton's "ceremonies" and his letters. Faced with the evidence of his affair with Norton – which left him open to the serious charge of "scandalous conduct" – Goossens was forced to plead guilty to the pornography charges. He paid a fine of £100; more significantly, the scandal ruined his reputation and forced him to resign from his positions. He returned to England in disgrace. The scandal was the basis of a novel, ''Pagan'' (1990), by Inez Baranay; it also inspired a play, ''The Devil is a Woman'', by Louis Nowra and an opera, ''Eugene & Roie'', by Drew Crawford. The scandal is documented in the film ''The Fall of the House'', directed by Geoff Burton.

Marriages and children

He was married three times: to Dorothy Millar from 1919 to 1928 (with whom he had three daughters), to pianist Janet Lewis from 1930 to 1944 (two daughters, Sidonie born in 1932 and Renee born in 1940), and to Marjorie Foulkrod from 1946 to 1962 (childless). His daughter Renee published an autobiography in 2003, which noted that her mother said her biological father was a Swedish violinist. At the end of his life he and his wife lived apart, and he was instead joined by a young pianist from

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, Pamela Main.

Note

The Belgian baritone Albert Goossens, who with his wife Alice Goossens-Viceroy, a soprano with the New South Wales State Orchestra, were on the teaching staff of the Sydney Conservatorium, was not related. Their daughter Renee Goossens, soprano and teacher at the Sydney Conservatorium and the Melba Conservatorium, has been confused with Renée Goossens (born 1940), youngest daughter of Sir Eugene Goossens and author of ''Belonging: a memoir''.

Death

His former student Richard Bonynge visited him near the end of his life, and found him "absolutely destroyed". Nevertheless, he was engaged for work with the BBC, and Everest Records asked Goossens to make some stereo recordings. For Everest he completed a powerful recording of Respighi's '' Feste Romane'' just before his death and it was released as the sole selection on the LP. His other Everest recordings included Rimsky-Korsakov's ''

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'', Rachmaninoff's '' Symphonic Dances'', Tchaikovsky's ''Manfred'' Symphony, and the ''

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'' by Hector Berlioz. He died of

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and a haemorrhaging gastric ulcer on 13 June 1962 at

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in Middlesex. He was buried in St Pancras and Islington Cemetery. He left his estate including copyrights and royalties "to my faithful companion and assistant Miss Pamela Main".

Music and legacy

Among his works as a composer are two symphonies (1940, 1945), two "Phantasy" concertos (one for piano, one for violin) both composed in the 1940s, two string quartets (1918, 1942), two violin sonatas (1918 and 1930) and a Concertino for string octet (1928) that became quite popular and was later re-scored for string orchestra. The Oboe Concerto (1927), was written for his brother,

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. He wrote two operas, both with libretto by

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, which Banfield believes are among his major achievements: ''Judith'' (1929) and ''Don Juan de Manara'' (1935). The latter was broadcast by the BBC on 11 April 1959 with

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, Helen Watts, Marion Lowe, Bruce Boyce, Robert Thomas and Andrei McPherson. The performance was conducted by Goossens himself. And between 1949 and 1954 he wrote a large-scale oratorio, ''The Apocalypse'', after the Revelation of St. John. In 1942 Goossens wrote to several composers, including Aaron Copland, to request patriotic fanfares as "stirring and significant contributions to the war effort..." Copland responded to the request with his famous '' Fanfare for the Common Man''. Eighteen fanfares were written by the different composers and performed during the 1942/43 season of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. * A Fanfare for Airmen, composed by Bernard Wagenaar, performed Oct. 9, 1942 * A Fanfare for Russia, composed by Deems Taylor, performed Oct. 16, 1942 * A Fanfare for the Fighting French, composed by Walter Piston, performed Oct. 23, 1942 * A Fanfare to the Forces of our Latin-American Allies, composed by Henry Cowell, performed Oct. 30, 1942 * A Fanfare for Friends, composed by Daniel Gregory Mason, performed Nov. 6, 1942 * A Fanfare for Paratroopers, composed by Paul Creston, performed Nov. 27, 1942 * Fanfare de la Liberté, composed by Darius Milhaud, performed Dec. 11, 1942 * A Fanfare for American Heroes, composed by William Grant Still, performed Dec. 18, 1942 * Fanfare for France, composed by Virgil Thomson, performed Jan. 15, 1943 * Fanfare for Freedom, composed by Morton Gould, performed Jan. 22, 1943 * Fanfare for Airmen, composed by Leo Sowerby, performed Jan. 29, 1943 * Fanfare for Poland, composed by Harl McDonald, performed Feb. 5, 1943 * Fanfare for Commandos, composed by Bernard Rogers, performed Feb. 20, 1943 * Fanfare for the Medical Corps, composed by Anis Fuleihan, performed Feb. 26, 1943 * Fanfare for the American Soldier, composed by Felix Borowski, performed March 5, 1943 * Fanfare for the Common Man, composed by Aaron Copland, performed March 12, 1943 * Fanfare for the Signal Corps, composed by Howard Hanson, performed April 2, 1943 * Fanfare for the Merchant Marine, composed by Eugene Goossens, performed April 16, 1943 In 1941 he made the first American recording of the Symphony No. 2 by Tchaikovsky, with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Goossens's recording ignored the cuts that were popular with conductors at that time. That same year, also with the Cincinnati Symphony, he recorded Vaughan Williams' ''

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'', in its 1920 edition, and also the original version of Walton's Violin Concerto, with Jascha Heifetz as soloist. After his return to England, Goossens was approached by Beecham to arrange a modern symphony orchestra version of Handel's ''

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'' to mark the bicentenary of the composer's death in 1959. Goossens augmented the original orchestration with parts for four horns, three trombones, tuba, piccolo, contrabassoon, two harps, triangle, cymbals, and bass drum. Memorably, he added cymbal clashes on the second repeat of "Wonderful, Counsellor" in the chorus "For Unto Us A Child is Born", and introduced an accelerando at the climax of the Hallelujah Chorus. Beecham recorded the piece soon afterward with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Goossens's version became synonymous with the conductor (but much less so with its orchestrator). Because of disputes around whose work the orchestration was, and the fact that the manuscript was held by the Beecham estate, despite it being claimed by Goossens's estate, it went unperformed for over 40 years. It went unrecorded for even longer, until a new recording appeared in 2020, again with the RPO, under Jonathan Griffith. For Kapp Records, he recorded a bilingual version of ''

Peter and the Wolf ''Peter and the Wolf'' ( rus, Петя и Bолк, r="Pétya i volk", p=ˈpʲetʲə i volk, links=no) Op. 67, a "symphonic fairy tale for children", is a musical composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936. The narrator tells a children's s ...

'' in 1959, featuring the actor José Ferrer narrating the story in both English and Spanish. The music was played by the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. The performance was later released on CD by

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. Goossens is credited for much of the lobbying to the NSW Government to build a music performance venue, a process that led to the construction of the

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. Having agreed to go ahead with the project, the

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Joseph Cahill had wanted it to be on or near Wynyard Railway Station in the north-west of the CBD, but Goossens insisted that it be built at Bennelong Point overlooking Sydney Harbour. The site of Bennelong Point was confirmed in 1957, after he had left Australia. He is commemorated in the Eugene Goossens Hall, a small concert and recording facility that is part of the broadcasting complex of the

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in Harris Street, Ultimo, in

Bibliography

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Discography

A far from complete listing: * George Antheil: Symphony No 4 and

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: '' Estancia'' ballet suite,

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, Everest stereo LP SDBR 3013 (1958) *Antheil: Symphony No 4 (and Aaron Copland: ''Statements for Orchestra'', Aaron Copland conducting, London Symphony Orchestra), Omega/Everest CD reissue of 1958 LP: EVC 9039 (1996) * John Antill: ''

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'' ballet suite, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, HMVED1193-4/2A A206-9 (1950), reissued on Dutton CD CDBP 9779 (2007) *Antill: ''Corroboree'' ballet suite and

: '' Panambi'' ballet suite, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goosens, conductor, Everest stereo LP, SDBR 3003 *Antill: ''Corroboree'' ballet suite and Alberto Ginastera: ''Panambi'' ballet suite, '' Estancia'' ballet suite, Heitor Villa-Lobos: '' The Little Train of the Caipira'', London Symphony Orchestra, Omega/Everest CD reissue of 1958–59 Everest LPs: EVC 9007 (1994) * Arnold Bax: ''

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'', New Symphony Orchestra of London, HMV C1619-20, CR2017-19, (1928), reissued on Dutton CD CDBP 9779 (2007) *Bax: ''Mediterranean'', New Symphony Orchestra of London, HMV C1620 CR2025, (1928), reissued on Dutton CD CDBP 9779 (2007) *Bax: Symphony No. 2, BBC Symphony Orchestra, live broadcast, 2 November 1956, Dutton CD CDBP 9779 (2007) * Hector Berlioz: ''

Symphonie fantastique ' (''Fantastical Symphony: Episode in the Life of an Artist … in Five Sections'') Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is an important piece of the early Romantic period. The first performan ...

'', London Symphony Orchestra, Everest stereo LP (1959) SDBR 3037; reissued as Vanguard/Everest CD EVC 9017, (1995). *Eugene Goossens: ''Four Conceits'', Op.20 (~1917–1918), ''Goossens' s Orchestra'', cond. Eugene Goossens. Edison Bell 'Velvet-Face' 1042 (10" (25 cm) 78 rpm), masters 7325, 7326. Issued ''circa'' September 1922. *Goossens: ''Tam O'Shanter'', Op. 17a (1917),

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Orchestra, HMV D694 Cc1777 (1922), reissued on Dutton CD CDBP 9779 (2007) * Edvard Grieg: ''Peer Gynt'' Suite No. 1, London Philharmonic Orchestra, His Master's Voice/Electrola *

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: Violin Concerto,

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violin, London Symphony Orchestra, (with Hindemith: Symphony in E flat, Sir Adrian Boult conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra), Omega/Everest CD reissue of Everest 1958–59 LPs: EVC 9009 (1994). *

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: Symphony No. 3 ''Scottish'', BBC Symphony Orchestra, His Master's Voice BLP 1045 *Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 4 ''Italian'' and 5 ''Reformation'', London Philharmonic Orchestra, Saga XID 5056 *

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: Violin Concerto No. 3 and Paul Hindemith: Violin Concerto (world premiere recording),

, violin, London Symphony Orchestra, Everest stereo LP SDBR 3040 (1959) * Modest Mussorgsky, orch.

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: Pictures at an Exhibition, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Pickwick SPC 4031 *

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: '' Feste Romane'' and

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: '' Symphonic Dances'', London Symphony Orchestra, Everest stereo LP SDBR 3004, (1958) *Respighi: '' Feste Romane'' (with Respighi: ''

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'' and ''

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'' conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent), London Symphony Orchestra, Vanguard/Everest CD reissue EVC 9018 (1995) *

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: ''

'', London Symphony Orchestra, World Record Club TP148 *

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, Symphony in B minor (Unfinished),

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Orchestra, His Master's Voice/Electrola (1925) *

: ''

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'', London Symphony Orchestra, Everest stereo LP SDBR 3033 (1959) *Stravinsky: '' Symphony in Three Movements'', London Symphony Orchestra, (and Stravinsky '' Ebony Concerto'' with Woody Herman orchestra) Everest stereo LP SDBR 3009 (1958) *Stravinsky: '' Le Sacre du Printemps'', London Symphony Orchestra, Everest stereo LP SDBR 3047 (1960) *Stravinsky: ''Petrouchka'', '' Symphony in Three Movements'', London Symphony Orchestra, Vanguard/Everest CD reissue of Everest 1958 LPs: EVC 9042, (1996). *Stravinsky: ''Petrouchka'', ''Symphony in Three Movements'', London Symphony Orchestra (and Stravinsky: '' Ebony Concerto'' with Woody Herman orchestra), Philips CD reissue of Everest 1958 LPs: Philips 422 303-2, (1989). *Stravinsky: '' Le Sacre du Printemps'' and

: '' Symphonic Dances'', London Symphony Orchestra, Vanguard/Everest CD reissue of 1960 & 1958 LPs: EVC 9002 (1994). *Stravinsky: ''Le Sacre du Printemps'' and ''Petrouchka'', London Symphony Orchestra. Bescol/Compact Classics CD reissue of Everest 1959–1960 LPs: CD 514 (1987). * Tchaikovsky: '' Manfred Symphony'', London Symphony Orchestra, Everest stereo LP SDBR 3035 (1959); reissued as Omega/Everest CD EVC 9025 (with

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: tone poem '' Tapiola'', Tauno Hannikainen conducting the London Symphony Orchestra) (1996). *Tchaikovsky: ''

1812 Overture ''The Year 1812, Solemn Overture'', Op. 49, popularly known as the ''1812 Overture'', is a concert overture in E major written in 1880 by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to commemorate the successful Russian defense against Napoleon I ...

'', '' Eugene Onegin'' Waltz, Royal Opera House Orchestra, His Master's Voice/Electrola * Heitor Villa-Lobos: ''Little Train of the Caipira'', Manuel de Falla: '' The Three-Cornered Hat'' World Record Club STP 164.

References

External links

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Eugene Goossens biography
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Eugene Goossens in AusStage
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