Sir Donald Francis Tovey (17 July 1875 – 10 July 1940) was a British musical analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer, conductor and pianist. He...

this music Rellstab's remark would long ago have been forgotten." Donald Francis Tovey thought the title of Moonlight was appropriate for the first movement...

composed in 1801–02 by Ludwig van Beethoven. The British music scholar Donald Francis Tovey says in A Companion to Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas: "With all...

This is a list of compositions by Donald Tovey. Bagatelles Allegro and Andante Variations on an Original Theme Passacaglia Balliol Dances Sonata eroica...

composer Brian Tovey (1926–2015), British intelligence analyst Cameron Tovey (born 1985), Australian former basketball player Donald Francis Tovey (1875–1940)...

published simultaneously with his first and third sonatas in 1796. Donald Francis Tovey wrote, "The second sonata is flawless in execution and entirely beyond...

simultaneously with his second and third piano sonatas in 1796. Donald Francis Tovey wrote, "Sir Hubert Parry has aptly compared the opening of [this...

Beethoven's youth, such as the Pathétique or Moonlight sonatas, Donald Francis Tovey described it as an 'exquisite little work.' I. Allegro II. Andante...

oboist Leon Goossens, the violinist Adila Fachiri, and the pianists Donald Francis Tovey, Harold Craxton, Kathleen Long, and Bartlett and Robertson. The Society...

was the teacher and life-long friend of the music scholar and composer Donald Tovey. Weisse was born in Edinburgh in 1852 to immigrant parents. Her father...

(1900) Clarinet Sonata No. 2 (1900) Clarinet Sonata No. 3 (1909) Donald Francis Tovey: Clarinet Sonata in B-flat major, Op. 16 (1906) Charles Villiers...

Saint-Saëns' growing acceptance by the French musical establishment. Sir Donald Francis Tovey later wrote "Here, for once, is a violoncello concerto in which the...

(1936, here quoted from the 1939 edition): British musicologist Donald Francis Tovey likewise criticized Wihelmj's arrangement, stating that "At my concerts...

Phantasy Quartet for oboe and strings. According to the musicologist Donald Francis Tovey, "the term 'fantasia' would adequately cover all post-classical forms...

(1846–1916) Charles Tournemire (1870–1939) Allen Toussaint (1938–2015) Donald Francis Tovey (1875–1940) Joan Tower (born 1938) Geoffrey Toye (1889–1942) Antonio...

ISBN 978-0521812344. Gaut and Livingston, p. 6. Green, Edward (2005). "Donald Francis Tovey, Aesthetic Realism and the Need for a Philosophic Musicology". International...

in modified form as the closing chorus of BWV 191. As to origins, Donald Francis Tovey argued that it is based on a lost choral movement from which Bach...

The music of Africa is often purposely ambiguous. To quote Sir Donald Francis Tovey (1935, p. 195), "Theorists are apt to vex themselves with vain efforts...

New York : G. Braziller. ISBN 0807612049. Fifield 2005, p. 109. Donald Francis Tovey, Essays in Musical Analysis, vol. 3, Oxford University Press (1936)...

been at least as popular with the public. Prominent musicologist Donald Francis Tovey has called this work the crowning achievement and culmination of...

while the third movement is the slow movement in the tonic minor. Donald Francis Tovey described this movement as "intensely aristocratic". The movement...

Sir Donald Francis Tovey's Essays in Musical Analysis are a series of analytical essays on classical music. The essays came into existence as programme...

content in English Painting 1935 Gilbert Murray — Then and Now 1936 Donald Francis Tovey — Normality and Freedom in Music 1937 Harley Granville-Barker — On...

restless character has been noted by many commentators, including Donald Francis Tovey, who called it "full of passionate and lonely energy", and Charles...

J. Dent: A Life in Words and Music (2023), p. 59 Grierson, Mary. Donald Francis Tovey, A Biography Based on Letters. OUP (1952), p.151 Cohen, p. 42. The...

are frightfully difficult to play and to interpret. According to Donald Francis Tovey, the instrumentation of this sonata for string quartet is “one of...

Medfield, Massachusetts. In 1935 he went to Scotland to study with Donald Francis Tovey at the University of Edinburgh, receiving a Mus. Bac. (Bachelor of...

receive serious attention and critical acclaim, with the writings of Donald Francis Tovey, and the public performances of Artur Schnabel and Eduard Erdmann...

(1905–1996) was a musician, a viola player, and a lecturer under Donald Francis Tovey at the University of Edinburgh. Born in Aberdeen and originally of...

Edinburgh where he made a simple catalogue of the archive of Sir Donald Francis Tovey (1875–1940). In 2010, he was invited by Edge Hill University, Ormskirk...