Description

Professor Sir Donald Tovey's celebrated "bar-by-bar analysis of Beethoven's 32 Pianoforte Sonatas" remains a seminal text for pianists, students, scholars, and music lovers. This new edition is presented as a companion to the ABRSM's Complete Pianoforte Sonatas, edited by Harold Craxton, with each work prefaced by Tovey's practical and insightful commentary.

The book opens with a succinct and illuminating summary of Tovey's analytical approach, before delving into a detailed examination of each sonata. This reprint features a new introduction by Dr. Barry Cooper, a Lecturer in the Music Department at the University of Manchester. While faithfully reproducing Tovey's original text, Dr. Cooper has added footnotes to correct factual errors or qualify conclusions that may have been influenced by the passage of time since the book's initial publication in 1931.

With this re-issue, Tovey's famed insight, common sense, and wit will continue to enlighten and entertain both his devoted followers and a new generation of performers and students.