Percy Aldridge Grainger Penguin Dictionary of Music, percy Aldridge grainger was an Australianborn composerand pianist; lived 1900-15 in London and thereafter in USA (naturalised). http://www.grainger.de/music/composers/grainger.html
Extractions: prev. table next Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music , Percy Aldridge Grainger was an Australian-born composer and pianist; lived 1900-15 in London and thereafter in USA (naturalised). Pupil in Germany of Busoni; friend of Edvard Hagerup Grieg . Collected and edited English folk music and based some compositions on it. Also wrote choral works, many short orchestral pieces (e.g. "Country Gardens", "Handel in the Strand"); usually published his work in several different (and often unconventional) instrumental versions. Used deliberately anglicised vocabulary, e.g. "louden" (crescendo), "middle-fiddle" (viola), "bass fiddle" - to mean cello, not double-bass, which term he retained.
Percy Grainger masterly tells us about the live, thoughts and adventures of one of the strangestmusic makers of all times, composer and pianist percy Aldridge grainger. http://www.grainger.de/dbe/sbs/grainger002.html
Extractions: The revised edition of THE Grainger biography by John Bird. In this biography, John Bird masterly tells us about the live, thoughts and "adventures" of one of the strangest music makers of all times, composer and pianist Percy Aldridge Grainger. A very complete book, which is special, for, as the author stresses in his preface, making an understandable view of the complicated life of Grainger, is not a simple task. Besides all important facts about "Perks", the book contains lots of interesting background information, letting us know under which circumstances and in what time the composer lived. Also an updated discography and a list of all places where manuscripts etc. are to be found are included. The current edition is fully revised, the first print was released in the mid seventies. In one word: brilliant!!!
Percy Grainger percy grainger by Jessie and Josephine percy grainger was a famous Australiancomposer and pianist. He was born on 8 July1882 in Brighton, Victoria.. http://teachit.acreekps.vic.edu.au/cyberfair2001/Percygrainger.htm
Extractions: Percy Grainger by Jessie and Josephine Percy Grainger was a famous Australian composer and pianist. He was born on 8 July1882 in Brighton, Victoria.. His father was John H Grainger and his mother's name was Rose, a well known architect whose designs included the Princes Bridge in Melbourne. Percy Grainger was a child prodigy. His mother gave him his first piano lessons. He gave his first concert at the age of 10. These were followed by training with other well known teachers in Australia. After his 13th Birthday, he went to Germany to study. After the first world war, Percy Grainger continued with concert tours and lectures. At 18 he had already become famous in London. In 1918 he became an American Citizen but he came back to Australia often. He founded the Grainger Museum at the University of Melbourne. On 20th February 1961 he died in New York and he was buried in Adelaide, South Australia.
Move Records - Composer - Percy Grainger His father, John H. grainger, was a wellknown architect Quite precocious at an earlyage, percy made his Rose to further his training as a pianist and composer http://www.move.com.au/artist.cfm/412
Extractions: Catalogue Search Australian Baroque Choral Christmas Classical Cross cultural Early Music Folk Jazz Keyboard Orchestra Organ Sampler Vocal Australia's longest-running classical music label Home About Advanced Search Samplers ... Contact Percy Grainger Composer Born George Percy Grainger, Grainger was born on 8 July 1882 at Brighton, Victoria. His father, John H. Grainger, was a well-known architect whose designs included the Princes Bridge in Melbourne. Quite precocious at an early age, Percy made his first concert tour when he was twelve. Soon afterwards, he went to Germany with his mother Rose to further his training as a pianist and composer. Between 1901 and 1914, Percy and his mother lived in London where his talents flourished. In these years he befriended the Norwegian composer, Edvard Grieg, whose love of national music inspired Percy to look closely at English folk music. With the aid of a phonograph, Percy collected songs from folk-singers and from these made many famous arrangements from these. His friendships with many Scandinavian and English musical figures (Herman Sandby, Delius, Cyril Scott, Balfour Gardiner) developed during this period. In 1914, Grainger moved to America, where he lived for the rest of his life. He became an American citizen (although he always described himself as Australian) and during a brief spell in the U.S. Army Bands, he "dished-up" (as he put it) the Country Gardens piece which many people now equate with his name.
Cinefile Features Archives grainger, percy ALDRIDGE FACT SHEET. percy grainger (1882 1961), the eccentricbut brilliant composer / pianist from Melbourne, Australia lived on the edge. http://www.urbancinefile.com.au/scripts/cinefile/Features_Archives.idc?Article_I
Cinefile Reviews SYNOPSIS The story of eccentric Australian pianist percy grainger 1882 1961(Richard Roxburgh), and his intense relationship with his mother Rose http://www.urbancinefile.com.au/scripts/cinefile/Reviews.idc?Article_ID=2343
Body University Press, 1998) . percy grainger (18821961), an Australian-born,German-trained pianist, composer, musical. scholar, and musical http://home.earthlink.net/~llywarch/grngr.html.htm
Extractions: ABSTRACT J. Marshall Bevil, scholar, and musical experimenter, was a resident citizen of the U.S. from 1918 onward. Although he is best known for his compositions in traditional styles, Grainger is most important for his aleatoric works and for the precedent that he set for notational accuracy in ethnomusicological investigations. Grainger's personal, intellectual, and artistic idiosyncrasies have continued to limit the general estimation of his importance. However, an increase in both the amount and the quality of Grainger research since ca has the potential for changing that situation. (C) 1997 J. Marshall Bevil - - - - - - - - - - END OF DOCUMENT - - - - - - - - - -
Grainger, Percy Aldridge grainger, percy Aldridge pianist, composer Birthplace Melbourne, Australia Born1882 Died 1961 Previous Grahame, Gloria, Top of section G, Next Gramm, Donald. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0156849.html
Portrait Of Percy Grainger by David Pear percy grainger (18821961) was a pianist, composer,ethnographer, essayist, and much more. The Australian-American http://www.urpress.com/3939.HTM
Extractions: Lincolnshire Posy , he was enduringly popular with the band movement in America. On a personal level, his development of the language of 'blue-eyed English' was stillborn, and his muscular style of pianism found few adherents among the next generation of performers. His frankly expressed views on sexual licence were also many decades ahead of their time. Today, however, Grainger the musician is again in the ascendant. His more innovative works are gaining a belated hearing, while his standards, such as Country Gardens , remain firm favorites. Malcolm Gillies and David Pear are co-editors of Grainger on Music and 'The All-Round Man': Selected Letters of Percy Grainger, 1914-1961 Reviews 'The editors of this volume have...skilfully avoided the familiar trap and have given us a rewarding, informative and - wonder of wonders - entertaining take on Percy Grainger, and we can but thank them warmly for it.' DELIUS SOCIETY JOURNAL, Autumn 2002 'There is a wealth of fascinating material here. This book is worth every penny and is a must for every Delian's library.' THE DELIAN (Oct.2002)
Composer percy grainger (18821961). The Australian pianist and composer percygrainger, an eccentric figure, may seem of marginal importance. http://web02.hnh.com/composer/btm.asp?fullname=Grainger, Percy
OUP USA: Percy Grainger Bird's acclaimed biography of percy grainger gives the Behind grainger's highly originalcompositional achievements, folksong a virtuoso concert pianist lay a http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0198166524.html
Extractions: - This extensively revised edition of John Bird's acclaimed biography of Percy Grainger gives the first circumstantial account of the life and works of one of the strangest figures in twentieth-century music. Behind Grainger's highly original compositional achievements, folksong collecting, and glittering career as a virtuoso concert pianist lay a tragic and chaotic personal life, long domination by his mother, unorthodox sexual predilections, an eccentric athleticism, a demonic spiritual drive, and a wildly inconsistent personal philosophy with Anglo-Saxon obsessions such as his famous "Blue-Eyed English". A list of published compositions, a current discography of performances by Grainger, and a selection of his seminal writings complete what has already proved to be a standard work. "Bird charts the course of his subject admirably, dealing with Grainger's notorious sexual proclivities, in particular, with tact and compassion. He also writes vividly of Grainger's mythic physical dynamism, perverse racial views, self-destructive generosity and obsessive relationship with his mother." Times Literary Supplement
Grainger An energetic eccentric, percy grainger has gained a certain P ercy Aldridge graingerwas a musician of a musical innovator, a virtuoso pianist, a perceptive http://www.maurice-abravanel.com/graingerenglish.html
Extractions: Percy Grainger P ercy Aldridge Grainger was born at Brighton, near Melbourne, in 1882 and from an early age showed a precocious musical talent, making his first public appearance at the age of ten F ollowing studies in Germany, at Frankfurt's Hoch Conservatoire for four years, absorbing Teutonic culture but not much liking it. Then, in 1901, the Graingers moved on to London, where his fame as a concert pianist and composer rapidly increased. He began a concert career in England and toured South Africa and Australia. In 1906 he met Grieg, who became enthusiastic about Grainger's talent. He studied the Grieg Piano Concerto with the composer in 1907 and published the definitive annotated edition containing Grieg's explicit directions. For his piano recitals he transcribed his favorite melodies from a wide variety of composers including Dowland, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Delius, Fauré and Strauss. He worked unceasingly to promote the music by his contemporaries, especially Cyril Scott, Delius and Grieg. He settled in the USA, giving a sensational debut in New York in 1915 and gave summer sessions in Chicago from 1919 to 1931.
Grainger Engl More percy Aldridge grainger (18821961). percy grainger the eccentric but brilliantcomposer and pianist from Melbourne, Australia lived on the edge. http://www.maurice-abravanel.com/grainger_engl_more.html
Extractions: 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 London for his health and when he did he left his family behind. The bond between the mother and the son grew deeper, even spiritual, and they thought of themselves as "the two of us against the world". O wing to her self-motivation and thirst for knowledge
Grainger: Piano Music percy grainger (18821961 your lower jaw in place as he negotiates grainger's 'cakewalksmasher in this repertoire - challenging to the pianist, delightful to http://www2.hyperion-records.co.uk/details/66884.asp
Extractions: 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
The ANU Reporter an almost complete manuscript entitled a SelfPortrait of percy grainger, againco of Music), which deals with the autobiographical writings of the pianist. http://www.anu.edu.au/mac/reporter/volume/33/14/news/graingerbiog.html
Percy Grainger percy grainger, composer pianist, is one of the significant Australians who canbe found on the information pages on Melbourne (Australia) maintained by http://www.whitehat.com.au/Australia/People/Grainger.html
Extractions: We are currently preparing a short profile. Please return again soon, or email us if you would like to be notified when this entry is complete. Percy Grainger - sheet music Performances by Percy Grainger Percy Grainger Plays Grainger Percy Grainger plays Vol.II Percy Grainger in Performance Complete Edition Percy Grainger Edition, Vol. 1: Orchestral Works
The Age Bringing Percy Grainger To Life One English account from 1970 describes him thus When percy grainger first came eyesbursting with vitality, immensely enthusiastic and a staggering pianist. http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/2001/02/22/FFXFXR0WFJC.html
The Correspondence From Percy And Ella Grainger To Alex Burnard 1932 - 1956 percy grainger (1882 1961) was one of Australia's most exotic and interestingmusical figures. An excellent concert pianist, composer, collector of English http://www.newcastle.edu.au/services/library/collections/archives/int/digitalscr
Extractions: Percy Grainger (1882 - 1961) was one of Australia's most exotic and interesting musical figures. An excellent concert pianist, composer, collector of English folk songs, a purveyor of all things creative and imaginative in the sphere of modern life and music, and an inventor of the free music machine . He was a man far ahead of his time. His circle consisted of a number of significant Scandinavian and English composers such as Edvard Grieg, Delius and the esotericist Cyril Scott. Percy Grainger was born on the 8th July 1882 at Brighton, Victoria and spent his early period in Australia. He moved to London with his mother and lived there from 1901 to 1914. He then moved to America, became and American citizen, and lived there for the rest of his life. In 1928 he married an Swedish artist Ella Strom. He developed a friendship with the South Australian composer Alexander Burnard (1900 - 1971) and his wife Phyllis, visiting them when he and his wife were in the country. We present for you here all the letters and cards sent by the Graingers to the Burnards from 1932 to 1956. For a more substantial biographical sketch on Percy Grainger see the Grainger Museum Website's piece entitled "Percy Grainger: A Brief Biographical Background".
Marcel Worms - Pianist Dahomey' van de Australische componist percy grainger (die later Verder is graingerbeinvloed door een Negro pianist Jimmy Yancey heeft een sobere evenwichtige http://www.euronet.nl/~mrworms/toelichting3.html
Marcel Worms - Pianist thing about this Concert Rag by the Australian composer percy grainger (who becamean his activities as a teacher, composer and classical pianist he workes as http://www.euronet.nl/~mrworms/eng/toelichting3.html
