List of compositions by Percy Grainger

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Percy Grainger (1882–1961) wrote two main kinds of music: original works and settings of folk songs. He also left many unpublished pieces, sketches, and early works. His career lasted from the late 1800s to the mid-1950s. He often worked on pieces for many years, sometimes across decades, and many works exist in several versions. Some works use “elastic scoring,” which lets performances range from a small group to a full orchestra.

Publication dates mark when a work first appeared in print, but Grainger often revised and created new versions long afterward. The lists of his works here are not complete. Grainger’s biographer notes that cataloguing all of his music is almost impossible because his original scores are scattered around the world. In the mid-1970s, the Grainger Museum in Melbourne began cataloguing its Grainger manuscripts and published initial results in 1978. Grainger also made many arrangements of other composers’ music, which are not included here.

He grouped many works under general collection headings, such as 1922, 1924, 1937, and 1949, as well as the Bardic Edition, and more specific categories like Baritone, Chorus and Instruments, Orchestra, and Kipling settings.