Born in Goffontaine, near Saarbrücken, c.July 5, 1819
Died in Leipzig, April 21, 1898
- Gouvy didn’t study music as a child. He came to Paris to study law in 1836, took piano lessons while he was there, lost interest in law, flunked out of his law classes and decided to become a composer.
- Gouvy was independently wealthy, so he could devote his time to composing and promoting his works (he often funded performances himself).
- Gouvy produced over 90 compositions over the course of his life.1
Sources
- Jeffrey Cooper and Cormac Newark, “Gouvy, Louis Théodore,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed October 10, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000011552.