Record ID:
36077752 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 79124007 no2002026740
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18820708
  • Melbourne, Australia
Death:
  • 19610220
  • White Plains, N.Y.
Fields of activity:
  • music
Occupations:
  • composer pianist editor folk song collector
Used for:
  • Grainger, George Percy, 1882-1961
  • Greĭndzher, P., 1882-1961
  • Aldridge Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961
  • Grainger, Percy Aldridge, 1882-1961
Notes:
  • Born in Brighton, Victoria; showed a talent in graphic and musical arts from a young age; performed publicly in 1894, when his talent was repeatedly noted; left Australia with his mother to study in Germany, where he entered the Dr. Hoch's Conservatorium in Frankfurt-am-Main at 13; enjoyed a long and arduous concert career in London and Europe; travelled to the United States of America in 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918; visited Australia in 1934-35, 1938 and 1955-56; died at White Plains, New York, his remains at his family's grave in Adelaide.
  • Parker, D. C. Percy Aldridge Grainger, 1918.
  • New Grove (Grainger, (George) Percy (Aldridge); b. July 8, 1882, Brighton, Melbourne; d. Feb. 20, 1961, White Plains, NY; American composer, pianist, editor)
  • Grove music online, September 12 2011 (Grainger, (George) Percy (Aldridge); b. Brighton, Victoria [i.e., a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia], 8 July 1882; d. White Plains, NY, 20 Feb 1961; Australian-American composer, pianist and folksong collector)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)114770
  • 000001083942
  • abv02507752
  • (VSL)1594192
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX18190
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC IEN UPB-Mu GU-Mu DLC
Authentication code:
  • anuc