Eugène Goossens, fils

Eugène Goossens (28 January 1867 – 31 July 1958) was a French-born conductor and violinist.

[1] To distinguish him from his conductor father and his composer son of the same name he is often referred to as Eugene Goossens II.

Goossens was born in Bordeaux and studied in Bruges[2] and the conservatoire in Brussels.

[3] He moved to England with his father, Eugène Goossens, père, in 1873,[4] and after a period of service with the Carl Rosa Opera Company as violinist, répétiteur and deputy conductor under the direction of his father he entered the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1891.

[4] He conducted part of Sir Thomas Beecham's opera season at His Majesty's Theatre in 1917.