Gouvy was a man of two cultures, divided between France and Germany, from which he drew his inspiration, his characteristics and his force. While to a certain extent he was known and recognised in his lifetime, he fell into obscurity following his death.

Gouvy (French pronunciation:; Walloon: Gouvi) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium. On 1 January 2007 the municipality, which covers 165.11 km 2, had 4,780 inhabitants, giving a population density of 29 inhabitants per km 2.

Théodore Gouvy left behind a variegated oeuvre of instrumental and vocal music that combines “German earnest with French elegance”.He created this work during a period of high political tension between Germany and France, which was to …

Alternative Names/Transliterations: Théodore Gouvy, Ludwig Theodor Gouvy. Name in Other Languages: تيودور جوفي, لويس ثيودور جوڤى, Theodor Louis Gouvy, Théodore Gouvy, テオドール・グヴィ, Луи Теодор Гуви, Louis Theodore Gouvy

Gouvy began piano lessons with a private tutor at the age of eight, and was educated in France—Sarreguemines, then Metz—developing a keen interest in Classical Greek culture and in modern languages—not only German, which he spoke fluently, but English and Italian as well.

The Théodore Gouvy Institute (French: Institut Théodore Gouvy) is a French music organisation based in Hombourg-Haut (in the historical region of Lorraine). Founded in 1995 its aims are to bring the name of the composer Théodore Gouvy (1819–1898) back to public consciousness. [1]

Louis Théodore Gouvy (July 3, 1819 – April 21, 1898) was a French composer. Gouvy was born into a French-speaking family in the village of Goffontaine, in the Sarre, a region on the France-Prussia border (now Saarbrücken-Schafbrücke, Germany).

Apr 8, 2013 · Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819-1898) was a composer of chamber music and symphonies who was working in his native France at a time when only ballet and opera mattered to Paris (which explains the lack of French symphonies coming from the 19th-century).

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The composer Théodore Gouvy was chosen as a guiding figure for the Society because his life and musical work in a time of high political tension that ended in the Franco-Prussian war (1870-1871), were influenced by German and French culture alike and therefore are characterized by an atmosphere of international understanding.