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“... The name Donald FrancisTovey (always rather pompously in full) used to typify, before career musicology swept all before it, the broadly cultured rather than narrowly scholarly writer on music, sometimes browbeating and always unashamedly didactic, avid to improve his readers’ minds, popularising without condescension or dumbing down ...”

“... the few writers that Holloway mentions in Music’s Odyssey, it is Charles Rosen and, above all, Donald FrancisTovey whom he seems to respect most. But Rosen and Tovey assumed (perhaps wrongly) a fair level of literacy in their readers; they used musical examples and expected more ...”

“... who might have provided England with a musicology equal in depth to that of the Germans: notably, Donald FrancisTovey, who left no great historical study to match his gifts, but, instead, a readable and often perceptive set of notes for the orchestra’s basic classical repertoire. Modern analysts do not esteem such ...”