The American pianist Australian born and composer, Percy Aldridge Grainger, was born from a father who was an architect who emigrated from London, England, and to a mother, Rose, who was the daughter of the hoteliers from Adelaide, south Australia, also of the English immigrant stock. His father was an alcoholic. When Grainger was eleven years old, his parents separated after his mother contracted the syphilis from his father, who later on returned to London. Grainger's mother was very dominant and possessive, although cultured, she recognized his musical abilities, and took him to Europe in 1895 to study in the Conservatory of Dr. Hoch in Frankfurt. There he showed his talent as a musical experimenter, using irregular and unusual meters.
From 1901 to 1914 Percy Grainger lived in London, where he was influenced by composer Edvard Grieg and befriended him. Grieg had an interest in the folk songs of his native Norway, and…show more content… His wedding was one of the most remarkable. It took place on the 9 of August 1928 on the stage of the Hollywood Bowl, after followed a concert with an audience of 20 thousand, with an orchestra of 126 musicians and an a cappella choral, which sang his new composition. In December of 1929, Grainger established himself as a musical innovator with a styles of orchestration or the arrange that he called "Elastic Scoring". He described his concept in an essay which he called, "To Conductors, and those forming, or in charge of Amateur Orchestras, High School, College and Music School Orchestras and Chamber Music Bodies." In 1932 he was appointed the Dean of Music at New York University, and he underscores his reputation as an experimenter by purchasing jazz in the syllabus and invite Duke Ellington as a guest lecturer, even though it cost him his academic life and soon abandoned it
