biography
| name: |
Tovey, Sir Donald Francis
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pronunciation:
[tohvee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1875–1940)
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| biography:
| Pianist, composer, and writer on music, born in Eton, S England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and in 1914 became professor of music at Edinburgh, where he built up the Reid Symphony Orchestra. He composed an opera, The Bride of Dionysus (1907–8), a symphony, piano concerto and cello concertos, and chamber music. His fame rests largely on his writings, notably Companion to the Art of Fugue (1931), Essays on Musical Analysis (1935–9), and his articles on music in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He was knighted in 1935. |
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