P116 CEEFAX 116  Sat 13 Feb  22:31/59
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 Mr Leon Goossens, considered to be the 
 greatest oboist of modern times, has   
 died in hospital in Kent aged 90.      
                                        
 Mr Goossens, who started pla9ing when  
 he was 10, discovered in the oboe      
 technical resources hitherto unknown.  
                                        
 His playing inspired a crop of new     
 works, many of them dedicated to       
 himself, bz composers such as Strauss, 
 Poulenc and Britten.                   
                                        
 He was born in Liverpool, one of a     
 celebrated musical family of Belgian   
 origin, which has produced nine first  
 rank musicians in three generations.   
                                        
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