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

The concerto has no association with any emperor, and according to Donald Tovey and Betsy Schwarm, Beethoven would have disliked it due to his disapproval...

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...

"Jerusalem" and the coronation anthem "I was glad" Roger Quilter, composer Donald Tovey, musicologist Frank Turner, musician Atticus Ross, musician and film...

Symphony No. 2. It is highly regarded by critics and musicologists; Donald Tovey stated that "along with the four Brahms symphonies and Schubert's Ninth...

The sonata is the subject of musical analyses including studies by Donald Tovey, Denis Matthews, Heinrich Schenker, and Charles Rosen. It has been recorded...

for keyboard along with Bach's Goldberg Variations. The music writer Donald Tovey called it "the greatest set of variations ever written" and pianist Alfred...

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

unmentioned. Despite Berlioz' mention of Byron, music critics, including Donald Tovey, have pointed out that Harold in Italy owes nearly nothing to the poem:...

Dass, who has 'fire enough in his belly to burn up the entire world.'" Donald Tovey, writing in his Essays in Musical Analysis, commented on this movement's...

musical beat whereas the first-movement theme begins on a weak one. Donald Tovey pours scorn on the idea that a rhythmic motif unifies the symphony: "This...

look into it, the more brightly the stars shine back." The musicologist Donald Tovey praises the work as “one of the greatest orchestral works since Beethoven”...

according to Douglas, written before Belloc's work. Belloc's friend Donald Tovey had composed musical settings of some of the verses by 1899 and played...

Contrapunctus XIV which include the fourth subject, including musicologists Donald Tovey (1931), Zoltán Göncz (1992), Yngve Jan Trede (1995), and Thomas Daniel...

(1912) Bertram Walton O’Donnell: Phantasy for cello and piano (1912) Donald Tovey: Phantasy for clarinet quintet (1912) York Bowen: Phantasy for violin...

recognised as among his greatest achievements. They were championed by Donald Tovey in his Essay on the Classical Concerto in 1903, and later by Cuthbert...

sometimes considered a "musical joke". For example, the English musicologist Donald Tovey has called this work "a comedy of manners". In fact, Symphony No. 1 can...

pairing of Sir Alexander Mackenzie's Scottish Concerto alongside Sir Donald Tovey's Piano Concerto in A, winning a BBC Music Magazine 'Best of the Year'...

Concerto No. 2 in D Major (Part 1 of 2)". CelloBello. Retrieved 2023-11-08. Donald Tovey, Essays in Musical Analysis, Concertos Media related to Cello Concerto...

teachers Verrall (1908–2001) studied with teachers including Aaron Copland, Donald Ferguson, Roy Harris, Frederick Jacobi, Zoltán Kodály, and R. O. Morris...

precedes it is so delicate in texture, so nimble and light-footed." Donald Tovey cites the abrupt intrusion of the C-sharp as an example of Beethoven's...

itself, and most original gaiety": The second subject is, in the words of Donald Tovey, "a conversation between the bassoon, the oboe, and the flute." The development...

new instructional compositions. One of the original editors was Sir Donald Tovey, who wrote informative notes on the music which are still highly regarded...

Robert Schumann regarded it as possessing "Grecian lightness and grace". Donald Tovey saw in it the character of opera buffa. Almost certainly, however, the...

self-conscious attempt to distance classical music from folk traditions. As Sir Donald Tovey explains in his discussion of Joseph Haydn's Symphony no. 88, "The trio...

distinguished musicological personages such as Heinrich Schenker and Sir Donald Tovey, largely because of its expansive length, unusual harmonies and interesting...

the role of the development section in the sonata form first movement. Donald Tovey described the final movement as a "polonaise for polar bears". However...

decompose, to mutilate the spirit of a work". Some analysts, such as Donald Tovey (whose Essays in Musical Analysis are among the most accessible musical...

Michael's Church, Croydon from 1921 to 1931, continuing his study with Donald Tovey at Edinburgh University from 1934 to 1936. In anticipation of conscientious...