| Sir Donald Tovey is
remembered nowadays as a critic and teacher rather than as a composer, a strange neglect
of a talent that at one time had seemed quite remarkable, from his days at Eton to Oxford,
fruitful collaboration with Joachim and, in 1914, a professorship
in Edinburgh, where he occupied a dominant position until his death, although his
activities now deflected his attention from composition.
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from "The Bride of Dionysus": Prelude (4'55'')
His Cello Sonata was completed in 1900 and the Elegiac Variations were written in memory
of Robert Hausmann, cellist in the Joachim Quartet.
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