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22. Percy Grainger mother moved on to London, where he became well known as a concert pianist.Like Béla Bartók, percy grainger was interested in collecting and preserving http://www.sbgmusic.com/html/teacher/reference/composers/grainger.html

Percy Grainger Percy Grainger was born July 8, 1882, in Melbourne, Australia. He studied piano as a child and gave his first recital in 1895, at the age of twelve. Like most children, Grainger enjoyed playing outdoors. He wondered why music could not be as free as the sounds of nature. Grainger moved with his mother, Rose Grainger, to Frankfurt, Germany, for more musical studies. In 1901, Grainger and his mother moved on to London, where he became well known as a concert pianist. Like , Percy Grainger was interested in collecting and preserving folk songs. While he lived in London, he traveled around England, collecting and transcribing folk songs. He recorded these songs on a wax-cylinder phonograph. Grainger believed that folk songs were a good source for learning the history of certain communities. Folk songs were important to Grainger for another reason as well. He wanted to be a composer. He used the folk songs he collected as the basis for many of his pieces, including Lincolnshire Posy.

23. Grainger, Percy Aldridge. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 grainger, percy Aldridge. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 200105. (gr n´j r) (KEY) , 1882–1961, Australian-American pianist and composer. http://www.bartleby.com/65/gr/Grainger.html

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24. Percy Aldridge Grainger During his lifetime, percy grainger was best known as a concert pianist of grainger, percy. Dished up for Piano . Volume 3. Martin Jones, pianist. http://members.aol.com/ComposerScott/essays/PAG.html

Percy Aldridge Grainger Champion of the Folksong By Scott D. Farquhar 10 May 1995 During his lifetime, Percy Grainger was best known as a concert pianist of great talent and stature. He was the chief interpreter of the piano concerto of Edvard Grieg, and even developed a close friendship with the Norwegian composer. Lesser known as a composer and arranger, his more popular works are of a lighter, frivolous, and crowd-pleasing nature. His more serious original works are finally starting to be examined and appreciated for their value. His greatest achievements, however, are in the realm of folksong collecting and arranging. This genre of music for the common folk permeated his career as a performer and composer as well. Folksong had an undeniably strong influence on him, and he in turn had a strong influence on its preservation and its elevation into a musical genre worthy of serious academic investigation. Percy Grainger was born in Melbourne, Australia on July 8, 1882 to John Harry Grainger, an architect, and Rose Annie Aldridge. His musical training began at age five on the piano. He practiced two hours a day under the tutelage of his extremely formidable mother for five years. Rose became responsible for young Percy's entire education when he refused to return to school after witnessing his classmates torment some hapless animal. He developed a fondness for Anglo-Saxon and old Norse literature such as Beowulf and the Icelandic sagas. At age ten he began studying with Louis Pabst and gave his first public recital at age twelve on July 9, 1894 at the Melbourne Masonic Hall.

25. The Free Music Machines Of Percy Grainger - Linz percy Aldridge grainger, composer and pianist, was born in Brighton Australia in1882 and died in White Plains NY in 1961. A highly eccentric individual http://www.rainerlinz.net/NMA/articles/FreeMusic.html

The Free Music Machines of Percy Grainger. Rainer Linz Percy Aldridge Grainger, composer and pianist, was born in Brighton Australia in 1882 and died in White Plains NY in 1961. A highly eccentric individual with a broad range of musical and other interests, he is remembered on three continents for various aspects of his musical achievements. In Europe he is best remembered for his popular arrangements of English folk tunes such as the 'evergreen' Country Gardens . In America many people will know him as a composer and arranger of brass band music. In Australia he is remembered chiefly for his musical innovations and for what he called 'Free Music'. Despite his populist activities, Grainger was a forward thinking musician who anticipated many innovations in twentieth century music well before they became established in the work of other composers. In his early career, like Bartok, he was an active collector and documenter of folk songs, including those of the South Pacific region. As early as 1899 he was working with so-called "beatless music", using metric successions (including such sequences as 2/4, 2½/4, 3/4, 2 ½ /4, 3/8 etc) inspired by the irregular rhythmic patterns of speech. His use of chance procedures in Random Round of 1912 predates John Cage(!), and he composed "unplayable" music onto player piano rolls while Conlon Nancarrow was still a child.

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27. - Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 The Australian pianist and composer percy grainger, an eccentric figure, may seemof marginal importance. Nevertheless he wrote a number of works that http://www.karadar.com/Dictionary/grainger.html

Composers Biography Languages Percy Grainger Life Works Photo Gallery Home Page Percy Grainger Life The Australian pianist and composer Percy Grainger, an eccentric figure, may seem of marginal importance. Nevertheless he wrote a number of works that continue to give considerable pleasure, as do some of the remarkable arrangements that he devised. He became a friend of Grieg and of Delius and took a strong interest in the active collection of folk-songs. He gave particular attention to the creation of music not bound by the traditional restraints of form and harmony. In 1918 he became an American citizen. Percy Grainger Works Grainger's original instrumental music includes the delightful Handel in the Strand, intended for piano trio, piano quartet or string orchestra, and Mock Morris, for either string sextet or violin and piano, or again in arrangements for string or full orchestra. Harvest Hymn appears in various chamber or orchestral arrangements, while Walking Tune remains in its original wind quintet form. Folk-song arrangements for various groups of instruments, sometimes idiosyncratically described as with elastic scoring, include Early One Morning, Green Bushes, Molly on the Shore, Ye Banks and Braes and Shepherd's Hey.

28. Nimbus Records, Grand Piano, NI 8809, Percy Grainger Plays Grainger - Booklet No percy grainger s reputation and musical stock has greatly risen in the past decade One reads with awe about grainger as a son, lover, composer, pianist, http://www.wyastone.co.uk/nrl/gpiano/8809c.html

Percy Grainger plays Grainger by David Dubal Percy Grainger's reputation and musical stock has greatly risen in the past decade or so. His music definitely speaks louder and more joyously than it ever has. Its bracing good will and generally folk-like character gives it its multi-cultural flavour. Percy wanted to bring "all the world's music to all the world." He grew up in a colonial British Australia, in a young country that heralded democratic ideals which stayed with him forever. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Percy was young, handsome, energetic, and a pianistic wizard. He was also a part of the vigorous folk-song collecting taking place in many countries. The fear that industrialisation would forever destroy the great repository of folk song was a real concern with such men as Cecil Sharp, Vaughan Williams, Bartók, Kodály, Pedrell, and many others. Grainger loved with an exuberant passion folk music of every context and was convinced that European civilisation had become artistically too rarefied, having lost its earthiness and animal vitality. He had come to dislike the intellectuality of the sonata form and often actively denounced the Viennese classical school, having a temperamental antipathy towards Beethoven himself. Throughout his career, he was associated with Grieg's music, especially the piano concerto. Grieg's death prevented a tour together where Grainger would have been soloist in the concerto. Grainger's interesting edition of the concerto with many fine points confirmed by the composer should be consulted by any pianist studying the composition.

29. Nimbus Records, Grand Piano, NI 8804, Schumann - Booklet Note percy grainger was born in Melbourne on 8 July 1882. His final appearance asa concert pianist took place at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire http://www.wyastone.co.uk/nrl/gpiano/8804c.html

Schumann Harold Bauer, Percy Grainger by David Dubal This disc of Schumann piano music is performed by two of the finest pianists of a great era in piano playing. Harold Bauer (1873-1951) and Percy Grainger (1882-1961) were both original thinkers in many areas and musicians of vision. During their lives they knew each other quite well. Grainger regarded Bauer highly as a Schumann player and it is touching that they are linked together through the genius of Robert Schumann. Harold Bauer first came to Grainger's notice some time in 1902 when Bauer performed in Franck's Piano Quintet, when Franck and Bauer both impressed Grainger. The two pianists met and retained a friendship throughout the years. Grainger himself seldom attended piano recitals: he was extremely insecure as a pianist and was overtly frightened if he found out a good pianist was in the audience. After a recital in Miami in 1945 he declared the "Real piano-players are egged-on to do their best when their fellow-craftsmen go to hear them, so we are told. But I (knowing myself to be a sham as a tone-show-player) always play my worst, if a piano player is in the hall. My heart sinks into my boots..." Harold Bauer attended that concert and wrote to Grainger, "Of course you know and you will never forget Delius' admiration for you. He revealed it to me one day in one of his characteristically explosive moments. We were talking about a number of contemporary composers whose work was then attracting considerable attention - 'What is lacking in every one of them,' burst out Fritz, 'is the one indispensable quality: originality... There are just a few who have this quality and one of them is Percy Grainger. I consider him a genius and one of the greatest composers.' Frankly I thought he was exaggerating, but later on I realised that he had said no more than the truth. Don't imagine, because all this went through my mind during your concert yesterday, that I was not listening - everything you did was coloured with that one indispensable quality and I enjoyed it all immensely. I never heard the Bach Toccata played so magnificently."

30. Music Division Archival Guide -- GRAINGER, PERCY, 1882-1961 Composer, pianist, conductor and publisher born in Australia, percy grainger moved to Immediate source of acquisition acquired from the percy grainger http://www.collectionscanada.ca/4/7/m15-355-e.html

Introduction General Information Regulations List of Abbreviations and Acronyms ... Name Index GRAINGER, PERCY, 1882-1961 MUS 5 Percy Grainger fonds. - 1896-1961. - 24 cm of textual records. - 1 photograph. Biographical sketch Composer, pianist, conductor and publisher born in Australia, Percy Grainger moved to the United States in 1914, teaching piano at Chicago Musical College (1919-28). From 1932 to 1933 he was chairman of the music department at New York University. He was guest artist with the Schubert Choir in 1933 and 1937, and also one of the first guest artists with the Musical Art Club, of which he was honourary president until his death. Scope and content The fonds consists of records pertaining to the musical activities of Percy Grainger: concert programmes; press clippings; catalogues of works and recordings; publicity flyers; syllabus; photograph postcard of the Flonzaley Quartet. Immediate source of acquisition: acquired from the Percy Grainger Library Society in 1964. Restrictions: none.

31. Chronology Percy Aldridge Grainger - W W W . P E R C Y G R A I N G E R . C O M 8 July 1882, Birth of George percy grainger at Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria . 9 July 1892, First public performance as a pianist at a Risvegliato http://home.hetnet.nl/~percygrainger/chronologie-gb.htm

Chronology of the life of Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) 1 October 1880 Rosa (Rose) Annie Aldridge married John Harry Grainger at St Matthew’s Church, Kensington Road, Adelaide, South Australia. 8 July 1882 Birth of George Percy Grainger at Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria. c. 1886 Starts formal education at home. Opening of Princess Bridge, Melbourne, designed by John H Grainger J ohn H Grainger lives apart from his family. c. 1891 Starts to study acting and painting with Thomas A. Sisley, and drawing with Frederick McCubbin. Piano lessons with Louis Pabst in Melbourne. 9 July 1892 First public performance as a pianist at a Risvegliato concert in the Masonic Hall, Melbourne. December 1894 Pabst leaves Australia for Europe and encourages Grainger to continue his music study abroad. Grainger begins to study with a former Pabst pupil, Adelaide Burkitt. First visit to vegetarian restaurant. 26 May 1895 Leaves Australia with his mother, Rose, to study piano and composition at the Dr. Hoch Conservatorium

32. Biography Percy Grainger (1882-1961) percy Aldridge grainger (born July 8, 1882 as George percy grainger) came At the age of ten percy studied harmony and piano with a German pianist named http://home.hetnet.nl/~percygrainger/biografie1-gb.htm

Percy Aldridge Grainger (born July 8, 1882 as George Percy Grainger) came from the raw and vigorous frontier world of nineteenth-century Brighton, Melbourne, Australia. He was the only child of John Harry Grainger, an architect from London, and Rose Annie Aldridge, the eighth child of a hotelkeeper's family in Adelaide, South Australia. His public education lasted less than three months. His classmates were cruel and ridiculed him and his appearance. Once he watched them torture a helpless animal. He refused to return to school, and his mother, Rose, assumed responsibility for his general education. In addition to studying English, foreign languages, history, art, and mathematics, Percy practised the piano for two hours every day with his mother sitting by his side. The regimen began when he was five years old and lasted until he was ten. John Grainger was a dignified and cultured man and respected as an architect. He loved music and in his spare time considered himself a painter. He was also an alcoholic. This condition coupled with Rose's independence of spirit, resulted in many violent arguments. On one occasion Rose chased her husband from the house with a horsewhip. Their superficially respectable marriage was destroyed when Rose discovered that she contracted syphilis from John. In 1891 he was advised to move to London for his health and when he did he left his family behind. The bond between the mother and

33. Grainger Engl More percy grainger the eccentric but brilliant composer and pianist from Melbourne, 708 Mr. Louis Pabst the pianist an teacher of percy grainger http://www.maurice-abravanel.com/grainger_engl_more.html

Percy Aldridge Grainger P ercy Grainger the eccentric but brilliant composer and pianist from Melbourne, Australia lived on the edge. Not content to try and change the course of music, Grainger experimented with clothing design, beadwork, and language reform and music technology; even in the bedroom. Grainger pushed himself to the limit. His youth (1882-1895) Frankfurt (1895-1901) Britain (1901-1914) America (1914-1925) ... Health His youth (1882-1895) P ercy Aldridge Grainger was born on July 8, 1882 as George Percy Grainger came from the raw and vigorous frontier world of nineteenth-century Brighton, Melbourne, Australia. He was the only child of John Harry Grainger , an architect from London, and Rose Annie Aldridge , the eighth child of a hotelkeeper's family in Adelaide, South Australia. H O wing to her self-motivation and thirst for knowledge, Rose Grainger was a well-educated woman. A tomboy in her early years, she matured into a reader of Greek mythology and the writings of Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, and Byron. She loved the songs of Stephen Foster and the piano music of Beethoven, Chopin and Grieg. She was an aggressive person who succeeded at everything she attempted, including the development of her son's musical career.

34. Memories Of Rose & Percy Grainger, By Kitty Parker (1936) to continue my piano studies, and become a solo pianist. I had made up my mindto study with percy grainger if he could take me, as I had the greatest http://www.geocities.com/id_munro/memsrpg.htm

The following brief essay was written on Percy Grainger's request, presumably with a view to inclusion in Grainger's extensive and scrupulously ordered archive of materials relating himself and his mother. It is possibly the connection to Percy's mother, Rose Grainger, that prompted the request, given Kitty's close acquaintance with her and the likelihood that the two women shared conversations and views about Percy during his absences on tour. Kitty writes mainly of her admiration for Grainger, eschewing the opportunity for detailed and lengthy descriptions. There is an unfortunate absence of dates; Kitty clearly did not regard her role as an historian and treated the exercise in a naive and informal way, taking every opportunity to let her friend know how highly she thought of him. Grainger, in his turn, added a brief paragraph of sincere praise of Kitty, leaving no doubt as to his high regard for her. The document is held in the Grainger Museum , University of Melbourne. by Kitty Eisdell (before marriage: Katharine Parker) must have someone who appreciates their work, listens intelligently, criticizes kindly, and fans the flame of enthusiasm again and again. The eternal practising and work necessary for a solo pianist becomes so wearisome day after day unless one is being urged on by someone and stimulated perpetually. Well, having gone on a little reminiscing I must now go back to the time after my first meeting with Percy and Mrs Grainger.

35. Kitty Parker-Tasmanian Composer Tasmanian pianist/composer Katharine Parker (18851971), biography, Anexcerpt from Memories of Rose and percy grainger by Kitty Eisdell (1936), http://www.geocities.com/id_munro/KPbiog.htm

Katharine Parker (1886-1971) Dear golden days... When first I wandered in those garden dreams with you How I remember as you stood with the broom in your hand And your pink sun bonnet, too... Just brushing up the leaves I saw you brushing and sweeping away Swirling, twirling around your pretty head And then I knew that you, with just a little hesitation, Might consent to stay, while the time away, Heedless of those falling leaves Then somebody came and took you away And left me to my garden dreams (converted MIDI file) Fox-trot song "Brushing up the leaves" (c.1930) C In Melbourne, Kitty studied for her Diploma of Music from 1904-6, gaining Honours in her Chief Study and Second Study in her first and third years. At the first Australian Exhibition of Women's Work, a grand undertaking held in November 1907 in the Exhibition Buildings, she won the Gold Medal for the 'Highest Award for Piano Solo over 20'. Soon afterwards, she headed to London with the intention of being introduced to and studying with Percy Grainger. [An excerpt from Memories of Rose and Percy Grainger by Kitty Eisdell (1936), Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne]

36. Percy Aldridge Grainger grainger, percy Aldridge , 1882–1961, AustralianAmerican pianist and composer.A friend of Grieg, whose music he often played, he settled (1914) in the http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0821486.html

Home U.S. People Word Wise ... Homework Center Fact Monster Favorites Hurricane Katrina Children as Authors Children Inventors The Doctor's In ... 2006 TFK Almanac Reference Desk Atlas Almanacs Dictionary Encyclopedia ... Encyclopedia Grainger, Percy Aldridge u r] Pronunciation Key Grainger, Percy Aldridge , Australian-American pianist and composer. A friend of Grieg, whose music he often played, he settled (1914) in the United States after establishing an international reputation as a pianist and composer. His interest in folk music is exemplified in his many settings of English folk melodies. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Page Tools: Cite Print See more Encyclopedia articles on: Music: History, Composers, and Performers: Biographies AD AD AD ADS Business Cards Link to Fact Monster Add Fact Monster search ... Privacy Brought to you by: Information Please

37. Classical Net Review - Percy Grainger grainger took the name we know him by percy Aldridge grainger - at least inpart as a reminder of his A brilliant concert pianist, he hated the piano. http://www.classical.net/music/books/reviews/0198166524a.html

Percy Grainger John Bird. Prefatory note by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. Appreciation by Leopold Stokowski. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999. 379 pp. ISBN 0198166524 On the dust-jacket cover of this excellent book, the composer Percy Aldridge Grainger looks out like a child with a naughty secret he hopes you share, so intently that the air between you and the portrait seems to vibrate. Few composers lead outward lives especially interesting. Most don't go exploring in remote corners of the world, break up spy rings, or achieve worldly power. Whatever interest we have in them usually centers on their inner lives. Although Grainger's "inner weather" seemed to mix a boy's playroom with the Hellfire Club, his outward eccentricities and his adventures as concert pianist and brilliant inventor mark him as one of the few exceptions to the general rule. I would say by almost any measure, Grainger was a genius, or at least a polymath. With only three months of formal schooling, he managed to master composition, the piano, electronics, and several languages. Many of his friends remarked that whatever the topic of conversation, Grainger could talk not only knowledgeably, but brilliantly. Yet, to his death, he remained intellectually a precocious adolescent. He believed the most incredible nonsense: that the greatest composers all had blue eyes (he photographed Vaughan Williams's eyes not once, but twice), that there really was a white man's burden, Nordic folk were God's chosen, Jews couldn't be trusted, among other things. He transferred his prostate-cancer operation from the Mayo Clinic to Denmark because he didn't want to risk drawing a Jewish doctor. On the other hand, he was not actively vicious in this regard. He admired Gershwin's music tremendously, going so far as to arrange songs and parts of

38. The Age 150th Subsequently percy grainger performed as solo pianist at the Grieg memorialconcert conducted by Svendsen at Copenhagen. After four or five years of concert http://150.theage.com.au/view_bestofarticle.asp?straction=update&inttype=1&intid

39. Grainger: Piano Music percy grainger (18821961). Piano Music. MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN piano Hamelin spleasure in this repertoire - challenging to the pianist, delightful to the http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/details/66884.asp

Compact Disc CDA66884 The solo piano music of Percy Grainger comprises about ninety works, many of which are transcriptions of earlier orchestral or instrumental compositions. Grainger was an inveterate arranger and transcriber of music: of his own compositions, of folk-music from around the world, and of works by masters from Bach and Dowland to Fauré and Richard Strauss. Despite his apparently loathing the piano, it being 'an affront to destroy a melodiously conceived idea by trying to fit it into the limitations of two hands and a box full of hammers and strings', the nineteen works in this recital capture all the humour, charm and sheer bravado of such 'dish-ups' as Handel in the Strand, Country Gardens and the rest. Recorded in St George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol, on 8-10 January 1996 Recording Engineer TONY FAULKNER Recording Producer ANDREW KEENER Post-production Assistant OLIVER RIVERS Piano prepared by PETER SALISBURY Design TERRY SHANNON Executive Producers JOANNA GAMBLE NICK FLOWER © Hyperion Records Ltd, London, MCMXCVI

40. Sleeve Notes - Bach Piano Transcriptions - 3: Friedman, Murdoch & Grainger How often does a pianist get the chance to be as overwhelmed with sound as percy grainger, however, has another take on him ‘My favourite composer is http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/notes/67344-N.asp

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750) Excerpts from the sleeve notes An Introduction by Piers Lane When I was due to record Rambles and Reflections (a disc of transcriptions by Percy Grainger) in 2001, the idea had already been mooted for a Hyperion series devoted to Bach transcriptions. For that reason, I omitted Percy’s four Bach explorations from that recording, saving them for the present series. Then arose the question of what to put alongside them. Friedman’s Bach is altogether different to play. His voice is surprisingly distinctive. His ovine imagination may pale in comparison with Grainger’s quixotic shepherding, but his Gavotte can hold its head up alongside Rachmaninov’s, and his Bourée provides great keyboard pleasure. His Brandenburg movement is a bit of a finger twister. Friedman is revered for his recorded performances of Chopin’s double-note Etudes. Quite obviously thirds and sixths and octaves came very naturally to him – his transcriptions bristle with them. His continual displacements of left-hand lines darting back and forth across the piano may ensure stimulating aural provocation, but they add innumerable difficulties for the unwary pianist. It is an interesting exercise to play his vision of the Toccata alongside Grainger’s. It’s not as grandiose, but his solutions are sometimes more elegant pianistically, perhaps allowing a more gradual building of the overall shape of the work. William Murdoch is less original in his approach than Friedman or Grainger, but how he relishes his material, and how wondrously does he understand piano sonority. Like his colleagues on this disc, he enjoys deploying thirds and octaves and underpinning lines of counterpoint with long, low held notes. He also delights in the piano’s dynamic range, and in its kaleidoscopic colour potential. Most of all, though, he sources the piano’s ability to express heroic nobility, Romantic depth and breadth – and to sing.

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