Grainger Percy Aldridge (1882-1961)
Australia / USA
Composer pianist, was born in Brighton, Melbourne, and died in White Plains.
English
Percy Grainger b. Brighton, Melbourne 8.7.1882, d. White Plains, NY 20.2.1961. Had Grainger never existed it would be necessary to invent him - but probably impossible. Truly a twentieth-century radical, he flaunted an originality that even today deserves greater recognition. Pupil of Busoni, friend of Grieg and Delius, he toured the world as a concert pianist before settling in the United States. His first love was folksong, yet his experiments in sonority, his attempts to devise a 'free music' liberated from conventional restraints of rhythm and melody, and his interests in oriental and medieval music show a mind ranging further afield than the pleasures of 'Country Gardens' and 'Molly on the Shore' - “my fripperies” as he called them.
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Italiano
(1882-1961)
Pianista compositore australiano nato a Brighton, Melbourne, e morto a White Plains. Allievo di Busoni, amico di Grieg e Delius ha dato concerti come pianista in tutto il mondo prima di stabilirsi negli Stati Uniti.
Pianista compositore australiano nato a Brighton, Melbourne, e morto a White Plains. Allievo di Busoni, amico di Grieg e Delius ha dato concerti come pianista in tutto il mondo prima di stabilirsi negli Stati Uniti.
Composizioni (12)
| Titolo | Editore | Strumentazione | Anno |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLEN DHAS OR 'THE VALLEY LAY SMILING' |3'30| | BARDIC | fl, en-horn, guit/harp, strings | 1907 |
| SHALLOW BROWN (the Author left it to the conductor to decide on the instruments) (1910) | SCHOTT | bar, chorus, orch* | 1910 |
| COUNTRY GARDENS (arr. Gregg Nestor) |2'30| | GREGG NESTOR PUBL. | fl, ob, clar, vl, guit | 1913 |
| COUNTRY GARDENS (arr. Zarh Myron Bickford) | non pubblicata | 3 guit | |
| FATHER AND DAUGHTER (1908/9) | SCHOTT | 5 m-voices, chorus, orch* | |
| FOLKSONGS ARRANGEMENTS (arr. Gregg Nestor) | GREGG NESTOR PUBL. | voice, guit | |
| GRAINGER «IN A NUTSHELL» (Country Gardens, The Sussex Mummer's Christmas Carol, Mock Morris) (arr. Gregg Nestor) | GREGG NESTOR PUBL. | ||
| HAUSBAND AND WIFE | BMIC | 2 guit | |
| SCOTCH STRATHSPEY AND REEL (1901/2) | SCHOTT | chorus, orch* | |
| SUITE: THE LONE GRAINGER (arr. Gregg Nestor) | GREGG NESTOR PUBL. | 2 guit | |
| THE LONELY DESERT MAN SEEN THE TENTS OF THE HAPPY TRIBES (1911 & 1914/1949) |2'30| | BARDIC | orch* | |
| WILLOW WILLOW (1902/11) | SCHOTT | voice, guit/harp, str-quart |