The Life and Times of Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937

The Life and Times of Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937 by Andrew Thomson

Widor's Toccata is one of the most popular pieces in the organ repertoire, yet the man himself and the bulk of his music have remained in unmerited obscurity. His long life of 93 years was unjustly overshadowed by Saint-Saens and Franck at the beginning, and by Debussy and the Impressionists at the end. In retrospect, however, a clearer picture emerges of his immense contribution not only to French music but to its wider civilization, as an organist, composer, conductor, teacher, writer, and, in his final years, a cultural ambassador for France. Andrew Thomson's comprehensive biography is the first of its kind in any language and is an eminently readable account of Widor's full and fascinating life amid the intellectual and political ferment of the Third Republic, spent in the company of a galaxy of musicians, authors, artists, society ladies, politicians, Popes and Kings.

Edward Brech (1909-2006) joined Urwick Orr and Partners in 1938 as a management consultant, initially working with Lyndall Urwick to produce the renowned three volume work The Making of Scientific Management. In Urwick Orr he played a leading role in the introduction of management training and
techniques and also wrote copiously on his own account. In 1959 he was seconded to Unilever and in 1965 was appointed as Chief Executive of the Construction Industry Training Board. On his retirement he returned to research, initially through the pursuit of a PhD, which he was granted at the age of
85. He built on his PhD to produce a monumental series of five volumes collectively titled The Evolution of Modern Management in 2002 and then moved to this biography of his old employer, mentor and co-author, Lyndall Urwick, on which he was working when he died. Andrew Thomson graduated from Oxford
in 1959 and worked in marketing with Unilever before taking a doctorate at Cornell and a series of academic positions at Glasgow University. Then in 1988 he became the first Dean of the Open University Business School at a time when it grew from small beginnings to become one of the largest business
schools in the world in its student numbers. He also was the Chairman of the Council of University Management Schools (1985-87), Chairman of the British Academy of Management (1990-93) and Chairman of the SERC-ESRC Joint Committee (1985-88). His academic interests have ranged from industrial
relations to management development and management history. He is now an Emeritus Professor at the Open University. John F. Wilson is Professor of Strategy at the University of Liverpool Management School. He has previously worked in the universities of Manchester, Leeds, Belfast, Nottingham, and
Preston (UCLan). He is co-author with Andrew Thomson of The Making of Modern Management: British Management in Historical Perspective (OUP, 2006).

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ISBN 13	9780198161868
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Title	The Life and Times of Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937
Author	Andrew Thomson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1989-10-01
Number of pages	128
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