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Sir Donald Tovey(1875-1940) |
"Table, Napkin, and Fruit" (1895), oil on canvas, 47 x 56 cm, of the painter Paul Cezanne, contemporary of Tovey (The Barnes Foundation, Merion) |
The musician Sir Donald Tovey, who wrote music for orchestra, chamber and vocal music, was born in Eton on the 17th July 1875, the same year of the composers Agostini, Alfano, Coleridge-Taylor, Courvoisier, Darzins, Eisler, Fano, Février, Glier, Horák, Huszka, Ketèlbey, Kreisler, Labey, Mariotte, Melartin, Montemezzi, Nouguès, Ollone, Pacchierotti, Panizza, Ravel, Riccitelli, Rootham, Rubens, Rôze, Scheinpflug, Shaw, Szulc, Valverde Sanjuán. He died in Edinburgh on the 10th July 1940 project Tovey (Deeper articles)Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of Late Romanticism Sir Donald Tovey OPERE"The Bride of Dionysus" was performed on the 23rd of April 1929 in EdinburghLIEDER"There be none of Beauty's daughters", published in 1926, text of George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
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