Composer Percy Aldridge Grainger

Posted by Tel Asiado Jul 8, 2008

Great Thinkers Datebook: July 8.

Percy Aldridge Grainger celebrates his birthday anniversary today, July 8 (1882.) He was an Australian-born American prolific composer, virtuoso pianist, music educator and collector of folk music.

Grainger founded the Grainger Museum of Australian Music in Melbourne, Australia.

Percy Grainger's life has been portrayed in a 1999 film adaptation, Passion. Co-written by Rob George and John Bird, it feataured Richard Roxburgh as Grainger and Barbara Hershey as his mother. He was known for the tune "English Country Garden" and his arrangement of "Irish Tune from County Derry."

For a brief biography, here's the link: Percy Aldridge Grainger

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