Die Kunst der Fuge
Tovey made several editions of other composers' music, including a 1931 completion of Bach's "Die Kunst der Fuge" (The Art of Fugue). His edition of the 48 Preludes and Fugues of Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier", in two volumes (Vol. 1, March 1924; Vol. 2, June 1924), with fingerings by Harold Samuel, for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, has been reprinted continually ever since. His completion of the (presumed) final unfinished fugue in "The Art of Fugue" has nothing of pastiche about it, and in fact has often been recorded as the final piece of the set. His influential "Essays in Musical Analysis" based on his Reid Orchestra programme notes, were first published at this time, in six volumes between 1935 and 1939. They were edited by Hubert Foss of the Oxford University Press.