 Together with a group of slightly older British students – Roger Quilter , Balfour Gardiner , Cyril Scott and Norman O 'Neill , all of whom became his friends – Grainger helped form the " Frankfurt Group " , whose long @-@ term objective was to rescue British and Scandinavian music from what they considered the negative influences of central European music . Encouraged by Klimsch , Grainger turned away from composing classical pastiches reminiscent of Handel , Haydn and Mozart , and developed a personal compositional style the originality and maturity of which quickly impressed and astonished his friends . At this time Grainger discovered the poetry of Rudyard Kipling and began setting it to music ; according to Scott , " No poet and composer have been so suitably wedded since Heine & Schumann " . 
