PERCY GRAINGER, ORIGINAL NAME GEORGE
PERCY GRAINGER, (JULY 8, 1882, MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA — FEB. 20, 1961,
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., U.S.)
Grainger
first appeared publicly as a pianist at age 10. He was educated at home in
Melbourne by his mother. He studied piano with Louis Pabst in that city and
later went to Frankfurt, where he attended the conservatory. He achieved a
reputation as a brilliant concert pianist beginning in London in 1901. In 1906
Grainger became a friend of Edvard Grieg, under whose influence he began
collecting and recording English folk songs by means of wax-cylinder
phonographs. He settled in the United States in 1914, performing for a few years
with a U.S. Army band. Grainger was deeply affected by the suicide of his
mother in 1922. He returned to Australia alone in 1924 and toured there as a
pianist in 1926 and again in 1934–35. In 1932–33 he was head of the music
department of New York University. In 1935 he founded the Grainger Museum at
Melbourne, a museum of Australian music where much of his own work and some of
his artifacts are preserved. Grainger was heavily influenced by English folk
music, which he arranged for keyboard instruments, chamber ensembles, and both
solo voice and chorus. He is probably best remembered for Country Gardens and
for the orchestral work Molly on the Shore. Other orchestral works are
Shepherd’s Hey and Mock Morris. In his chamber works, notably the two Hill Songs
for 23 and 24 solo instruments, he experimented with novel rhythmic and
structural forms.
TRACKLIST
Piano Concerto, Op. 16, a lst
Mvt. (Grieg) Duo-Art 6475
Piano Concerto, Op. 16, a 2nd Mvt. (Grieg) Duo-Art 6479
Piano Concerto, Op. 16, a 3rd
Mvt. (Grieg) Duo-Art 6485
Spoon River (American Folk Settings – No. l) (Grainger) Duo-Art 66170
Jutish Medley Danish Folk
Settings No 8 Duo-Art 7274
Symphonic Studies op13 8 – 12 (Schumann) Duo-Art 6868
Etudes Symphoniques Op13 Nos 1 – 12 (Schumann) Duo-Art 6859, 6868
Etude No 2 Ab from Trois Nouvelles Etudes (Chopin) Duo-Art 6548-3
An Den Frühling Op 43 No 6 (Grieg) Duo-Art 6206
Erotikon Love Poem Lyric Pieces
Op 43 No 5 (Grieg) Duo-Art D-59
Fugue in G Minor BWV542 (Bach) Duo-Art 7174
Nell, Op. 18, No. 1 “Free Settings Favorite Melodies” (Faure) Duo-Art
6931
Tribute to Foster: Lullaby (Grainger) Duo-Art 5821
Trad.- Guion Turkey in the Straw (Cowboys and Old Fiddlers’ Breakdown)
6444
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