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PERCY ALDRIDGE GRAINGER
(1882-1961)
Australian-born composer and pianist,
lived 1900-1915
in London and thereafter in the United States.
Pupil in Germany of Busoni, friend of 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 works in several different (and often unconventional) instrumental
versions.
Used deliberately and vocabulary, e.g. Lowden, (crescendo) 'middle-fiddle',
(viola), and bass fiddle,
(to mean cello) not double bass, which term he retained.
Londonderry Air.
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