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Eugene Aynsley Goossens

November 26, 2023

Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens (/ˈɡuːsənz/; 26 May 1893 – 13 June 1962) was an English conductor and composer.

For other uses, see Eugène Goossens.

Biography edit

 
Blue plaque, 70 Edith Road, West Kensington, London
 
70 Edith Road West Kensington London W14 9AR

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). His younger sisters and brothers, all musicians, were Marie, Adolphe, Leon and Sidonie.[1]

Eugene studied music at the age of ten in Bruges, three years later at Liverpool College of Music,[2] 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.[3]

He was a first violin in Henry Wood's Queen's Hall Orchestra 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 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. During the late 1920s he often conducted for Vladimir Rosing'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 Australia, nine American composers collaborated on Variations on a Theme by Eugene Goossens, for orchestra. The composers were Ernest Bloch, Aaron Copland, Paul Creston, Anis Fuleihan, Roy Harris, Walter Piston, Bernard Rogers, Roger Sessions and Deems Taylor, with Goossens himself writing the finale.[4]

Goossens spent nine years in Australia, from 1947 to 1956. There, he enthusiastically lobbied for a new major performing arts theatre, which ultimately led to the creation of the Sydney Opera House.

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 knighted.

Scandal edit

In the early 1950s, Goossens met Rosaleen Norton, the so-called "Witch of Kings Cross". Norton was known as an artist of the grotesque and for her interest in the occult 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.[5]

In early 1956, Goossens visited Europe, unaware that Sydney 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 "coven". When Goossens returned to Australia on 9 March 1956, he was detained at Sydney Airport, 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.[1][6]

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.[7][8]

Marriages and children edit

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),[9] 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.[9]

At the end of his life he and his wife lived apart, and he was instead joined by a young pianist from Adelaide, Pamela Main.

Note edit

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.[10] 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 edit

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 Scheherazade, Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony, and the Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz.

He died of rheumatic fever and a haemorrhaging gastric ulcer on 13 June 1962 at Hillingdon Hospital 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 edit

See also: List of compositions by Eugene Aynsley Goossens
 
Cover of the Suite for flute, violin and harp, or two violins and piano

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,[11] 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.[12] The Oboe Concerto (1927), was written for his brother, Léon Goossens. He wrote two operas, both with libretto by Arnold Bennett, which Banfield believes are among his major achievements: Judith (1929) and Don Juan de Manara (1935).[3] The latter was broadcast by the BBC on 11 April 1959 with Monica Sinclair, Marie Collier, Helen Watts, Marion Lowe, Bruce Boyce, Robert Thomas and Andrei McPherson.[13] 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.[14]

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[15]

In 1941 he made the first American recording of the Symphony No. 2 by Tchaikovsky, with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.[16] 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' A London Symphony, 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 Messiah 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[17]). 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 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 MCA Records.

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 Sydney Opera House. Having agreed to go ahead with the project, the New South Wales Premier 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 Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Harris Street, Ultimo, in Sydney.

Bibliography edit

  • Goossens, Eugene (1972). Overture and Beginners: A Musical Autobiography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-8371-5597-5.
  • Baranay, Inez (1990). Pagan. North Ryde, NSW: Angus & Robertson. ISBN 0-207-16681-1.
  • Rosen, Carole (1994). The Goossens: A Musical Century. London: Andre Deutsch Ltd. ISBN 0-233-98833-5.
  • Goossens, Eugene (1995). Cincinnati Interludes: A Conductor and His Audience. St. Austell: DGR Books. ISBN 1-898343-05-5.
  • Hubble, Ava (1998). The Strange Case of Eugene Goossens and Other Tales from The Opera House. Sydney: Collins. ISBN 0-7322-2449-7.

Discography edit

A far from complete listing:

References edit

  1. ^ a b Rosen, Carole. The Goossens: A Musical Century (1993)
  2. ^ Taylor, Stainton de Boufflers (1976). Two Centuries of Music in Liverpool: A Scrap-book of Information Concerning Musical Activities Both Professional and Amateur. Rockliff Brothers Limited. pp. 70, 108, 111. ISBN 9780950514307. Retrieved 23 August 2020. as a youngster, Eugene Aynsley Goossens studied violin with Charles Ross at the Liverpool College of Music
  3. ^ a b Banfield, Stephen (2002). Goossens, Sir (Aynsley) Eugene. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O003511. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
  4. ^ Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed. 1954: Vol III
  5. ^ ""Sir Eugene Goossens: sex, magic and the maestro"". Rewind (Interview). Interviewed by Michelle Arrow. Australia: ABC-TV. 5 September 2004. Retrieved 25 April 2007.
  6. ^ Franklin, James (2022). "Catholic Action, Sydney Style: Catholic lay organisations from friendly societies to the Vice Squad" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society. 108 (2): 172–201. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  7. ^ "The fall of the house". Music Australia. Retrieved 11 December 2008.
  8. ^ . Screen Australia. Archived from the original on 3 October 2006. Retrieved 11 December 2008.
  9. ^ a b Blanks, Fred (26 April 2003). "Belonging: A Memoir". Sydney Morning Herald.
  10. ^ Beth Mary Williams. "Lineages of Vocal Pedagogy". Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  11. ^ Foreman, Lewis, booklet for Chandos CD CHAN 5193
  12. ^ Paul Hindmarsh, notes for Chandos 9472 (1997)
  13. ^ John Phillips. "Eugene Goossens Orchestral Works". MusicWeb International. Retrieved 26 April 2007.
  14. ^ The Apocalypse, Lyrita recording reviewed at MusicWeb International
  15. ^ . The Cincinnati Symphony. Archived from the original on 13 May 2007. Retrieved 26 April 2007.
  16. ^ Liner note by Eric Pridham to Beulah 1PD11 20 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (1995)
  17. ^ . The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2020.

External links edit

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Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens ˈ ɡ uː s en z 26 May 1893 13 June 1962 was an English conductor and composer For other uses see Eugene Goossens Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Scandal 2 Marriages and children 2 1 Note 3 Death 4 Music and legacy 5 Bibliography 6 Discography 7 References 8 External linksBiography edit nbsp Blue plaque 70 Edith Road West Kensington London nbsp 70 Edith Road West Kensington London W14 9ARHe was born in Camden Town London the son of the Belgian conductor and violinist Eugene Goossens fils 1867 1958 and Annie Cook a Carl Rosa Opera Company singer He was the grandson of the conductor Eugene Goossens pere 1845 1906 his father and grandfather spelled Eugene with a grave accent he himself did not His younger sisters and brothers all musicians were Marie Adolphe Leon and Sidonie 1 Eugene studied music at the age of ten in Bruges three years later at Liverpool College of Music 2 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 3 He was a first violin in Henry Wood s Queen s Hall Orchestra 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 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 During the late 1920s he often conducted for Vladimir Rosing 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 Australia nine American composers collaborated on Variations on a Theme by Eugene Goossens for orchestra The composers were Ernest Bloch Aaron Copland Paul Creston Anis Fuleihan Roy Harris Walter Piston Bernard Rogers Roger Sessions and Deems Taylor with Goossens himself writing the finale 4 Goossens spent nine years in Australia from 1947 to 1956 There he enthusiastically lobbied for a new major performing arts theatre which ultimately led to the creation of the Sydney Opera House 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 knighted Scandal edit In the early 1950s Goossens met Rosaleen Norton the so called Witch of Kings Cross Norton was known as an artist of the grotesque and for her interest in the occult 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 5 In early 1956 Goossens visited Europe unaware that Sydney 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 coven When Goossens returned to Australia on 9 March 1956 he was detained at Sydney Airport 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 1 6 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 amp Roie by Drew Crawford The scandal is documented in the film The Fall of the House directed by Geoff Burton 7 8 Marriages and children editHe 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 9 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 9 At the end of his life he and his wife lived apart and he was instead joined by a young pianist from Adelaide Pamela Main Note edit 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 10 Their daughter Renee Goossens soprano and teacher at the Sydney Conservatorium and the Melba Conservatorium has been confused with Renee Goossens born 1940 youngest daughter of Sir Eugene Goossens and author of Belonging a memoir Death editHis 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 Scheherazade Rachmaninoff s Symphonic Dances Tchaikovsky s Manfred Symphony and the Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz He died of rheumatic fever and a haemorrhaging gastric ulcer on 13 June 1962 at Hillingdon Hospital 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 editSee also List of compositions by Eugene Aynsley Goossens nbsp Cover of the Suite for flute violin and harp or two violins and pianoAmong his works as a composer are two symphonies 1940 1945 two Phantasy concertos one for piano one for violin both composed in the 1940s 11 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 12 The Oboe Concerto 1927 was written for his brother Leon Goossens He wrote two operas both with libretto by Arnold Bennett which Banfield believes are among his major achievements Judith 1929 and Don Juan de Manara 1935 3 The latter was broadcast by the BBC on 11 April 1959 with Monica Sinclair Marie Collier Helen Watts Marion Lowe Bruce Boyce Robert Thomas and Andrei McPherson 13 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 14 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 Liberte 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 15 In 1941 he made the first American recording of the Symphony No 2 by Tchaikovsky with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 16 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 A London Symphony 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 Messiah 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 17 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 in 1959 featuring the actor Jose 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 MCA Records 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 Sydney Opera House Having agreed to go ahead with the project the New South Wales Premier 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 Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Harris Street Ultimo in Sydney Bibliography editGoossens Eugene 1972 Overture and Beginners A Musical Autobiography Westport Connecticut Greenwood Press ISBN 0 8371 5597 5 Baranay Inez 1990 Pagan North Ryde NSW Angus amp Robertson ISBN 0 207 16681 1 Rosen Carole 1994 The Goossens A Musical Century London Andre Deutsch Ltd ISBN 0 233 98833 5 Goossens Eugene 1995 Cincinnati Interludes A Conductor and His Audience St Austell DGR Books ISBN 1 898343 05 5 Hubble Ava 1998 The Strange Case of Eugene Goossens and Other Tales from The Opera House Sydney Collins ISBN 0 7322 2449 7 Discography editA far from complete listing George Antheil Symphony No 4 and Alberto Ginastera Estancia ballet suite London Symphony Orchestra 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 Corroboree ballet suite Sydney Symphony Orchestra HMVED1193 4 2A A206 9 1950 reissued on Dutton CD CDBP 9779 2007 Antill Corroboree ballet suite and Alberto Ginastera 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 Tintagel 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 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 Royal Albert Hall 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 Paul Hindemith Violin Concerto Joseph Fuchs 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 Felix Mendelssohn 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 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concerto No 3 and Paul Hindemith Violin Concerto world premiere recording Joseph Fuchs violin London Symphony Orchestra Everest stereo LP SDBR 3040 1959 Modest Mussorgsky orch Maurice Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Pickwick SPC 4031 Ottorino Respighi Feste Romane and Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances London Symphony Orchestra Everest stereo LP SDBR 3004 1958 Respighi Feste Romane with Respighi Pini di Roma and Fontane di Roma conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent London Symphony Orchestra Vanguard Everest CD reissue EVC 9018 1995 Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov Scheherazade London Symphony Orchestra World Record Club TP148 Franz Schubert Symphony in B minor Unfinished Royal Opera House Orchestra His Master s Voice Electrola 1925 Igor Stravinsky Petrouchka 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 Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances London Symphony Orchestra Vanguard Everest CD reissue of 1960 amp 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 Jean Sibelius tone poem Tapiola Tauno Hannikainen conducting the London Symphony Orchestra 1996 Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture 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 edit a b Rosen Carole The Goossens A Musical Century 1993 Taylor Stainton de Boufflers 1976 Two Centuries of Music in Liverpool A Scrap book of Information Concerning Musical Activities Both Professional and Amateur Rockliff Brothers Limited pp 70 108 111 ISBN 9780950514307 Retrieved 23 August 2020 as a youngster Eugene Aynsley Goossens studied violin with Charles Ross at the Liverpool College of Music a b Banfield Stephen 2002 Goossens Sir Aynsley Eugene doi 10 1093 gmo 9781561592630 article O003511 ISBN 978 1 56159 263 0 Grove s Dictionary of Music and Musicians 5th ed 1954 Vol III Sir Eugene Goossens sex magic and the maestro Rewind Interview Interviewed by Michelle Arrow Australia ABC TV 5 September 2004 Retrieved 25 April 2007 Franklin James 2022 Catholic Action Sydney Style Catholic lay organisations from friendly societies to the Vice Squad PDF Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 108 2 172 201 Retrieved 2 January 2023 The fall of the house Music Australia Retrieved 11 December 2008 The Fall Of The House AFC fully funds Geoff Burton documentary Screen Australia Archived from the original on 3 October 2006 Retrieved 11 December 2008 a b Blanks Fred 26 April 2003 Belonging A Memoir Sydney Morning Herald Beth Mary Williams Lineages of Vocal Pedagogy Retrieved 6 June 2022 Foreman Lewis booklet for Chandos CD CHAN 5193 Paul Hindmarsh notes for Chandos 9472 1997 John Phillips Eugene Goossens Orchestral Works MusicWeb International Retrieved 26 April 2007 The Apocalypse Lyrita recording reviewed at MusicWeb International The Goossens Fanfares The Cincinnati Symphony Archived from the original on 13 May 2007 Retrieved 26 April 2007 Liner note by Eric Pridham to Beulah 1PD11 Archived 20 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine 1995 Who s really shouting Hallelujah The Telegraph Archived from the original on 26 December 2013 Retrieved 7 April 2020 External links editEugene Aynsley Goossens at AllMusic Eugene Goossens biography at Boosey amp Hawkes Eugene Goossens in AusStage Free scores by Eugene Aynsley Goossens at the International Music Score Library Project IMSLP Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Eugene Aynsley Goossens amp oldid 1178391931, wikipedia, wiki, book, 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