Tovey, Sir Donald Francis
(1875–1940)
Sir DONALD FRANCIS TOVEYTOVEY, DONALD FRANCISDONALD FRANCIS TOVEY [* 1875-† 1940] In Donald Francis Tovey we meet a distinctive and forceful voice from the waning days of common-practice tonality. Like SCHENKER, Tovey displayed little sympathy for the newer trends that were supplanting the Bach-toBrahms tradition, but he chose a much different strategy in his confrontations with basic musical issues. His books developed out of other endeavors—editing, lecturing, writing program notes, supplying…