Previous posts for July 17th are here: Peter Schickele; Vince Guaraldi (2019), Peter Schickele (2020)., Isaac Watts (2021), Eleanor Steber (2022), and Peter Schickele (2023)
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Donald Francis Tovey (17 July 1875 – 10 July 1940) was a British musical analyst, writer on music, composer, conductor and pianist.
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He also contributed heavily to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, writing many of the articles on music of the 18th and 19th centuries. -- Wikipedia
If the Britannica was their preference
As a sourcebook and a reference,
It was Donald Francis Tovey’s prose
That tutored music through those rows
Of august, bound-in-leather tomes
In well-appointed English homes.
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