Introduction
Facing Percy Grainger explores the life, artistic world and musical achievements of a unique Australian. Forever associated, perhaps to his detriment, with the tuneful ‘Country Gardens’, Percy Grainger (1882–1961) was a celebrated pianist and composer, a pioneering folklore collector, musical inventor, social commentator and archivist. This exhibition, produced in association with the Grainger Collection, the University of Melbourne, reveals the many faces of the man whose life was played out across Australia, Europe and America.








