Plus que parfait bildung6/19/2023 ![]() They gained little from their own exalted status and their music suffered the same neglect at home as that of other British composers British publishing houses were not prepared to support British works, least of all piano concertos. Mackenzie was knighted in 1895, Tovey in 1935 (the year of Mackenzie’s death) and both men have suffered subsequently from being associated with the Establishment, though both were, in their own ways, quite radical. He could count amongst his honorary degrees music doctorates from St Andrews, Edinburgh, Cambridge, McGill and Oxford Universities. Mackenzie occupied a parallel role as Principal of the Royal Academy of Music in London (from 1888 to 1924), and although he had none of the academic pretensions of Tovey (who graduated with distinction from Oxford), Mackenzie was a fine linguist and had a mind of great sophistication and wit. ![]() Both composers share a Scottish connection: Mackenzie was Scottish in name, accent, blood and culture Tovey became Scottish by adoption, chiefly because he occupied Edinburgh’s Reid Chair of Music with great distinction for the last twenty-six years of his life.
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