{"product_id":"john-bird-percy-grainger-1999","title":"John Bird: Percy Grainger [1999]","description":"This extensively revised edition of John Bird's acclaimed biography of Percy Grainger gives the first circumstantial account of the life and works of one of the strangest figures in twentieth-century music. Behind Grainger's highly original compositional achievements, folksong collecting and glittering career as a virtuoso concert pianist lay a tragic and chaotic personal life--long domination by his mother, unorthodox sexual predilections, an eccentric athleticism, a demonic spiritual drive and wildly inconsistent personal philosophy with Anglo-Saxon obsessions such as his famous `Blue-Eyed English'. A list of published compositions, a current discography of performances by Grainger, and a selection of his seminal writings complete what has already proved to be a standard work. In their Prefatory Note to the first edition, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears wrote: `In his sympathetic and tactful biography John Bird has beautifully balanced the brilliance with the turbulence of this unbalanced genius--we are grateful to him'.","brand":"Bird, John","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":54083974922579,"sku":"9780198166528","price":250.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/bird-john-john-bird-percy-grainger-1999-9780198166528-1245891528.jpg?v=1782298181","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/john-bird-percy-grainger-1999","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}