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Percy Grainger

1882 - 1961

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Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 1882 – 20 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who moved to the United States in 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long and innovative career he played a prominent role in the revival of interest in British folk music in the early years of the 20th century. Although much of his work was experimental and unusual, the piece with which he is most generally associated is his piano arrangement of the folk-dance tune "Country Gardens". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Percy Grainger has received more than 852,765 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 29 in 2019). Percy Grainger is the 1,000th most popular composer (down from 910th in 2019), the 122nd most popular biography from Australia (down from 113th in 2019) and the most popular Australian Composer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Percy Grainger ranks 1,000 out of 1,216. Before him are John Rutter, Henri Pousseur, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Wolfgang Rihm, Emil Hartmann, and Julius Reubke. After him are Robert Gerhard, Mikael Tariverdiev, Harald Sæverud, Meredith Monk, Hubert Parry, and Yasushi Akutagawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Percy Grainger ranks 159. Before him are Walter Braunfels, Louis St. Laurent, George Bellows, Oldřich Duras, Ossip Bernstein, and Maurice Germot. After him are Pascual Orozco, Júlio Prestes, Kyusaku Ogino, Eric Gill, Nevile Henderson, and Carlo Galetti. Among people deceased in 1961, Percy Grainger ranks 104. Before him are Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Beppo Levi, Sergio Osmeña, Joseph M. Schenck, Charles D. B. King, and James Thurber. After him are Walter Bedell Smith, Olav Bjaaland, Scott LaFaro, Alberto Chividini, Paul W. Merrill, and Leonhard Frank.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Percy Grainger ranks 122 out of 925. Before him are Daniel Ricciardo (1989), Colin Burgess (1946), Ron Mueck (1958), Daevid Allen (1938), Raewyn Connell (1944), and Gregory David Roberts (1952). After him are Portia de Rossi (1973), Robert Menzies (1894), James Harrison (1936), Rose Byrne (1979), Helen Reddy (1941), and Anthony LaPaglia (1959).

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Among COMPOSERS In Australia

Among composers born in Australia, Percy Grainger ranks 1. After him are Arthur Benjamin (1893), Peter Sculthorpe (1929), Malcolm Williamson (1931), and Brett Dean (1961).

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