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Percy Grainger
Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who moved to the United States in 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long and innovative career he played a prominent role in the revival of interest in British folk music in the early years of the 20th century. Although much of his work was experimental and unusual, the piece with which he is most generally associated is his piano arrangement of the folk-dance tune "Country Gardens".Grainger left Australia at the age of 13 to attend the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. Between 1901 and 1914 he was based in London, where he established himself first as a society pianist and later as a concert performer, composer, and collector of original folk melodies. As his reputation grew he met many of the significant figures in European music, forming important friendships with Frederick Delius and Edvard Grieg. He became a champion of Nordic music and culture, his enthusiasm for which he often expressed in private letters, sometimes in crudely racial or anti-Semitic terms.
In 1914 Grainger moved to the United States, where he lived for the rest of his life, though he travelled widely in Europe and Australia. He served briefly as a bandsman in the United States Army during the First World War through 1917–18, and took American citizenship in 1918. After his mother's suicide in 1922, he became increasingly involved in educational work. He also experimented with music machines, which he hoped would supersede human interpretation. In the 1930s he set up the Grainger Museum in Melbourne, his birthplace, as a monument to his life and works, and as a future research archive. As he grew older, he continued to give concerts and to revise and rearrange his own compositions, while writing little new music. After the Second World War, ill health reduced his levels of activity. He considered his career a failure. He gave his last concert in 1960, less than a year before his death. Provided by Wikipedia
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3Percy Grainger plays Brahms and GraingerPublished 1981Other Authors: “…Grainger, Percy 1882-1961…”
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5Country gardens = Ländliche Gärten: engl. VolkstanzPublished 1919Order via interlibrary loanMusical Score Book
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6British folk-music settingsBand 1. Molly on the Shore : Irish Reel. On 2 Cork Reel tunes from the complete petrie collection of Irish music, edited by Charles Villiers Stanford. Set for string four-some (4 single strings), or 4-part string band (no doublebasses) by Percy Aldridge Grainger. - Part. (1911). - 10 S. - engl. Text. - London : Schott, 1911Published 1911Order via interlibrary loanMusical Score Book
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9An American in Paris: original version for two pianosPublished 1984Order via interlibrary loanAudio
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14Symphony no. 5: [in B flat major, op. 100]Published 2020Other Authors: “…Grainger, Percy 1882-1961…”
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16La Scandinavie: mélodies et dances du nord ; pour violoncelle et piano ; (1902) = Scandinavian suite : Northern folksongs and dances for violoncello and piano = Skandinavische Suite : nordische Lieder und Tänze fur Violoncello und KlavierPublished 2010Order via interlibrary loanMusical Score Book
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17Shepherd's heyPublished 2008Read online (BSB)
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19Ye banks and braes o'bonnie DoonPublished 2006Read online (BSB)
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20Mock morrisPublished 2006Read online (BSB)
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