Of Grainger's ‘Frankfurt Group’ friends, Cyril Scott was the most constant and long-lived. As with Grainger, Scott had arrived to study at the Hoch Conservatory first when only twelve years old, and by his early twenties, with the aid of the conductors Hans Richter and Henry Wood, was gaining a good reputation as a composer in Britain. He, too, was best known for his smaller pieces, of which Lotus Land (1905) was the most popular, and came to lament the inability of audiences to appreciate his larger-scale endeavours. As a pianist his skills were of a lesser order than Grainger's and his devotion to a performing career less firm. His extra-musical interests, however, were just as profound: he translated the poems of his friend Stefan George, wrote extensively on medical questions and was a controversial practitioner of the occult. Using such skills he claimed to have contacted Grainger's mother shortly after her death in 1922, but Grainger was averse to receiving any messages from her through his mediation. By the 1940s Scott's income had dwindled, leading to his financial dependence upon Grainger for some years. He continued to write about Grainger until well into the 1960s and probably knew his music better than any.