D. F. TOVEY , Mus. Doc. (Reid Professor of Music, Edinburgh University)
Donald Francis Tovey , pianist, composer, and Reid Professor of Music in Edinburgh University, was born at Eton in 1875. From his early years he displayed remarkable musical gifts. At the age of nineteen he was elected Lewis Nettleship scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, and four years later graduated in classical honours in 1S98.
Tovey's scholarship is immense, and on the music of Bach and Beethoven he is undoubtedly the foremost English authority. In addition to an extraordinary memory for and detailed knowledge of almost the entire range of classical music, he possesses a quick wit and a brilliant aptitude for simile that make his lectures, pamphlets, and analytical notes the most stimulating of their kind.
In this series of talks beginning this evening Professor Tovey will go through the whole of Beethoven's sonatas, devoting two talks to the analysis of each sonata and one to its performance.