
Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819-1898) may have patterned his conservative Romantic style after Schumann and Mendelssohn (with a little Schubert tossed into the mix), yet he
You can tell from the opening bars of Gouvy’s D
Gouvy’s seven symphonies are important works. More pertinently, they are
Ah, the joys of the European subsidy system–yes, we get interesting projects recording unfamiliar music like Gouvy symphonies, but if these players really had to
Alsatian composer Théodore Gouvy (1819-1898) composed seven symphonies, making him one of the few French composers of his day to focus on abstract instrumental music.