Professor Sir Donald Tovey's celebrated bar-by-bar analysis of
Beethoven's 32 Pianoforte Sonatasremains a key text for pianists,
students, scholars and music lovers. Intended as a companion to the
ABRSM's Complete Pianoforte Sonatas edition - edited by Harold Craxton
but with each work prefaced by Tovey's practical and critical notes -
the book contains a succinct and illuminating summary of the author's
analytical approach before each sonata is dealt with in detail. This
new imprint is prefaced with an introduction by Dr Barry Cooper,
Lecturer in the Music Department of Manchester University. Tovey's text
is reproduced faithfully; however, Dr Cooper has added footnotes to
correct errors of fact or to qualify conclusions drawn by Tovey that the
passage of time, since the book was first published in 1931, has
suggested might be questionable. With the re-issue of this book,
Tovey's famed insight, commonsense and wit will continue to enlighten
and entertain the author's devotees, as well as a new gen
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