Donald Francis Tovey
Sir Donald Francis Tovey (born July 17, 1875 in Eton / Berkshire , † July 10, 1940 in Edinburgh ) was an English pianist, composer and musicologist.
Life
Tovey studied piano and counterpoint at Oxford University until 1898 . In the 1900s he appeared with Joseph Joachim's quartet and performed his own works, including his piano concerto, in London, Berlin and Vienna. Between 1906 and 1912 he organized concerts in Great Britain and across Europe. He also wrote a large number of musical articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica .
In 1914 he received the Reid Professorship for Music at the University of Edinburgh as the successor to Friedrich Niecks , which he held until his death. Tovey was best known as the author of the essays in Musical Analysis , which appeared between 1935 and 1939. He founded the professional Reid Orchestra , which brought together musicians from the university sector with professional practitioners and which lasted until the 1980s. In 1935 Tovey was knighted as a Knight Bachelor . Since 1917 he was a member ( Fellow ) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .
His opera The Bride of Dionysius was performed in Edinburgh in 1929; the premiere of his cello concerto was played by Pablo Casals in 1935 .
Works (selection)
- Cello Sonata , 1900
- Piano Concerto in A major , 1903
- Elegiac Variations in memory of Robert Hausmann for cello and piano, 1909
- Symphony , 1913
- The Bride of Dionysius , 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, Oxford University Press, London 1935–1939:
- Volume 5: Vocal Music . Oxford University Press, London 1937 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Volume 6: Supplementary Essays, Glossary and Index . Oxford University Press, London 1939 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Michael Tilmouth, David Kimbell and Roger Savage (Eds.), Donald Francis Tovey: The Classics of Music - Talks, Essays, and Other Writings Previously Uncollected , Oxford University Press, London 2001, ISBN 0-19-816214-6 .
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Donald Francis Tovey in the International Music Score Library Project
- Peter R. Shore: Sir Donald Francis Tovey ( Memento from February 4, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), biography on Toccata Classics 2013
Individual evidence
- ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 17, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tovey, Donald Francis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English composer, pianist and musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eton |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1940 |
| Place of death | Edinburgh |