Alexandre Goria

Who is Alexandre Goria?

Alexandre Édouard Goria was a French virtuoso pianist and composer recognised among amateurs enthusiasts for his numerous salon pieces of different styles, which enjoyed great success by fans of salon music. Among these pieces, numbering over a hundred, there are études, fantasies, whims, solo concerts, nocturnes of various themes, polkas, mazurkas, berceuses, ballades and révêries. He was a highly acclaimed musician specially for his étude de concerto, Op. 7 and his brilliant fantasias for piano on many theatrical works such as Plaintes de la jeune fille and other transcriptions of lieders by Franz Schubert and other composers.