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- [19 July 1907?] (Creation)
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Northlands, Englefield Green, Surrey. - Ariadne ["The Bride of Dionysus"] is 'a joy' to Tovey; has tried it on 'several unprejudiced people' who all confirm his impression that it is a beautiful poem. 'The poet' [Bob Trevelyan] over-rates Tovey's role in it: this is only 'practical & prosaic and mechanical', and Tovey has as much right to praise it as [Joseph] Joachim has to praise the D minor concerto of Brahms. No 'greater proof of originality than the ability to act on external interferences'. Thinks it a totally unique opera. Trevelyan must not 'despoil his other works in this'; cites the bracketed passages in the last act which come from "Polyphemus". Sends 'veneration' to Paul.
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- Tovey, Sir Donald Francis (1875-1940) knight, music scholar and composer (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Elizabeth (1875-1957) musician, known as Bessie (Subject)
- Joachim, Joseph (1831-1907) violinist (Subject)
- Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) composer and pianist (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Paul (1906-1909) son of Elizabeth and Robert Calverley Trevelyan (Subject)