Edward James Clarke Garden (1930 – 23 September 2017), commonly known as Teddy Garden, was a British musicologist and academic. In 1969, he received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh for his thesis on "Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev". He was James Rossiter Hoyle Professor of Music (and Head of the Department of Music) at the

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between 1975 and 1993. He was part of the music staff at

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between 1954 and 1957, and then director of music at

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until 1966, when he was appointed senior lecturer in music at the

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. His time at Sheffield was marked by the university's difficulties in the early 1980s, but Garden went on to oversee a period of expansion in terms of student numbers and staff, and the introduction of new PhD programmes and concerts. In retirement, he was an

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professor at Sheffield."Edward James Clarke 'Teddy' Garden"
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on 19 December 2018.

Selected publications

*''Balakirev: A Critical Study of his Life and Music'' (Faber, 1967). *''Tchaikovsky'' (Dent, 1973).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Garden, Edward 1930 births 2017 deaths British musicologists Academics of the University of Glasgow Academics of the University of Sheffield