Eugène Goossens, père
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Eugène Goossens (February 25, 1845, Bruges, Belgium - 30 December 1906, Liverpool, England) was a Belgian conductor.
He was born in Bruges and studied at the conservatoire in Brussels. He conducted a number of opera companies throughout Europe, but became famous with the Carl Rosa Company in England, where he worked from 1873. In 1882, he conducted the first English performance of Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser in Liverpool.
He was the father of the conductor and violinist Eugène Goossens and grandfather of the conductor and composer Sir Eugène Aynsley Goossens.
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