Percy Grainger

Percy Aldridge Grainger was an Australianborn composer, arranger and pianist. 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. He also made many adaptations of other composers works. Although much of his work was experimental and unusual, the piece with which he is most generally associated is his piano arrangement of the folkdance tune Country Gardens.

Percy Graingers father, John Grainger , was an Englishborn architect who emigrated to Australia in 1877. He won professional recognition for his design of the Princes Bridge across the Yarra River in Melbourne. In October 1880 he married Rose Annie Aldridge, daughter of Adelaide hotelier George Aldridge. The couple settled in Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne where their only son, christened George Percy Grainger, was born onJuly 1882.

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