# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-tovey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:06:45.160Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-tovey"
name: "Donald Tovey"
slug: "donald-tovey"
description: "Sir Donald Francis Tovey was a British music analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer, conductor and pianist. He had been best known for his Essays in Musical Analysis and his editions of works by Bach and Beethoven, but since the 1990s his compositions have been recorded and performed with increasing frequency. The recordings have mostly been well received by reviewers."
tagline: "British composer, pianist and musicologist (1875–1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_Donald_Francis_Tovey.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1875-07-17"
deathDate: "1940-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump