I am hungry for fame-after-death: Percy Grainger's quest for immortality through his museum

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    NEMEC, BELINDA
    Date
    2007-09
    Source Title
    Recollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia
    Publisher
    National Museum of Australia
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Nemec, Belinda
    Affiliation
    Arts: The Australian Centre
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    Nemec, B. (2007). I am hungry for fame-after-death: Percy Grainger's quest for immortality through his museum. Recollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia, 2(2), 180-200.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/33560
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    Abstract
    This paper examines the autobiographical museum established in the 1930s at the University of Melbourne by the Australian-born composer, pianist, folklorist and educator Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882–1961). The suicide in 1922 of his mother, Rose, served as the catalyst to Grainger's museum project. The paper discusses his attempts to create a museum that would both serve as a memorial to Rose and position Grainger himself for posterity as Australia's greatest composer. Grainger's attitudes to death, the past, nostalgia, memory and relics, as manifested through his museum collection, are explored.
    Keywords
    Grainger Museum; Percy Grainger; University of Melbourne; Australian composers

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