| LC control no. | n 50033142 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Goffin, Robert, 1898-1984 |
| Associated country | Belgium France |
| Located | Brussels (Belgium) United States |
| Birth date | 1898-05-21 |
| Death date | 1984-06-27 |
| Place of birth | Ohain (France) |
| Place of death | Brussels (Belgium) |
| Field of activity | Law Music Poetry |
| Affiliation | Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Trumpet players Jazz musicians Poets |
| Found in | His Aux frontières du jazz, 1932. New Grove online, Jan. 29, 2007: (b. Ohain, Belgium, 21 May, 1898; d. Brussels, 27 June, 1984) Académie Royale de langage et de littérature françaises de Belgique WWW site, December 15, 2022: Composition; Membres; Membres décédés (Goffin, Robert; trained as a lawyer, he became enamored with jazz in the early 1920s and wrote a collection of jazz-inspired poems, Jazz-band (1922); formed a jazz band in which he played trumpet; wrote on a wide array of topics; in the U.S. from 1940 to 1945, when he returned to Belgium; became a member of the Académie in 1953) <https://www.arllfb.be/composition/membres/goffinrobert.html> |
| Associated language | fre |
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