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Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger (Hardcover)
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Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger (Hardcover)
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Shortly before his death, Percy Grainger (1882-1961) lodged over
twenty unpublished sketches in his Australian Museum. Self-Portrait
of Percy Grainger draws exclusively from these sketches, revealing
for the first time an illuminating portrait of the composer's life.
With such titles as "The Aldridge-Grainger-Strom Saga," "Thunks,"
"Ere-I-Forget," "The Love-Life of Helen and Paris," and
"Anecdotes," these manuscripts were intended as precursors to
Grainger's autobiography, My Wretched Tone-Life, which he only
commenced in his final years. Expertly shaping these sketches, the
editors have created a "self-portrait" along the lines that
Grainger himself had intended.
The volume first introduces Grainger's forebears, parents,
friends, wife, and himself before moving on to his views on
composition, performance, and the musical world. In these sketches,
Grainger addresses such topics as racial and national identity, the
meaning of work, physical culture, language reform, sexual
practice, and artistic patronage. Grainger also probes the nature
of musical genius, discussing a broad range of composers including
Igor Stravinsky, Thomas Beecham, Frederick Delius, Edvard Grieg,
Charles Stanford, Cyril Scott, Fritz Kreisler, Donald Tovey,
Ferruccio Busoni, and Balfour Gardiner. Among the works of his own
that Grainger most featured are his The Warriors --Music for an
Imaginary Ballet, Colonial Song, the Lincolnshire Posy series of
band pieces, his greatest "hit" Country Gardens, and his many
settings of English folk-music.
Written in Grainger's own self-created "Nordic English" as well as
translated from Danish, the language of his most intimate
confessions, Self-Portrait of Percy Graingersheds light on some of
the most revealing details of the composer's life. The sketches
trace Grainger's changing self-perception, from the romantically
tinged, even lustful, views of his forties and fifties, through a
period of wistfulness in his sixties, to the bitterness and
self-loathing of his old age. The volume also includes several of
Grainger's own drawings as well as both public and private
photographs. A fascinating and revealing collection of vignettes,
this extraordinary book will appeal to instructors, students, and
enthusiasts in musicology, music history, cultural studies, and
Australian, British, and American history.
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