Donald Tovey

Donald Francis Tovey ( born July 17, 1875 in Eton / Berkshire, † July 10, 1940 in Edinburgh ) was an English pianist, composer and musicologist.

Tovey studied until 1898 at the University of Oxford piano and counterpoint. In the 1900s he performed with the quartet of Joseph Joachim, and led his own works, including his Piano Concerto in London, Berlin and Vienna. Between 1906 and 1912 he organized concerts in the UK and across Europe. He also wrote a large number of music articles for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

In 1914 he was awarded as the successor of Frederick Niecks the Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh, which he held until his death. Tovey was best known as the author of Essays in Musical Analysis, which appeared 1935-1939. He founded the professional Reid Orchestra, which brought together musicians from the area of ​​university with professional practitioners and existed until the 1980s. Tovey was knighted in 1935.

His opera The Bride of Dionysius was listed in 1929 in Edinburgh; the premiere of his Cello Concerto played 1935 Pablo Casals.

Works

  • Piano Concerto in A major, Op 15
  • Cello Sonata, 1900
  • Elegiac Variations in memory of Robert Haussmann
  • Symphony, 1913
  • The Bride of Dionysus, opera, 1929
  • Cello Concerto, 1935

Publications

  • The Vitality of Artistic Counterpoint, in: Journal of the International Music Society, Volume 7 (1905 ), pp. 365-368
  • Essays in Musical Analysis, 6 volumes, London 1935 to 1939
  • Michael Tilmouth, David Kimbell and Roger Savage ( ed. ), Donald Francis Tovey: The Classics of Music - Talks, Essays, and Other Writings Previously Uncollected, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-19-816214-6

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  • Biography Sir Donald Tovey by Peter R. Shore - Toccata in Classics
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • Composer
  • Classic pianist
  • Musicologist
  • English
  • Born 1875
  • Died in 1940
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