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Gustav Holst
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Gustav Holst (born September 21, 1874 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK - died May 25, 1934) was an English composer and a music teacher for over 20 years. Holst is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets. Having studied at the Royal College of Music in London, his early work was influenced by Ravel, Grieg, Richard Strauss, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, but most of his music is highly original, with influences from Hindu spiritualism and English folk tunes. Holst's music is well known for unconventional use of metre and haunting melodies. Gustav Holst wrote almost 200 catalogued compositions, including orchestral suites, operas, ballets, concertos, choral hymns, and songs. (See: selected works, below). Holst became music master at St Paul's Girls' School in 1905 and also director of music at Morley College in 1907, continuing in both posts until retirement (as detailed below). Holst died on May 25, 1934, after stomach surgery, at age 59. He was the brother of Hollywood actor Ernest Cossart, and father of the composer and conductor Imogen Holst, who wrote a biography of her father in 1938. Name He was originally named Gustavus Theodor von Holst but he dropped the von from his name in response to anti-German sentiment in Britain during World War I, making it official by deed poll in 1918. Early life He was born in 1874 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England to a family of Swedish extraction (by way of Latvia and Russia), and was educated at Cheltenham Grammar S
top songs
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The Planets, Op. 32: IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
100,7762The Planets, Op. 32: I. Mars, the Bringer of War
82,8223The Planets, Op. 32: II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
72,1014Mars, the Bringer of War
72,0135Brook Green Suite: II. Air
59,6866Mercury, the Winged Messenger
56,4097Venus, the Bringer of Peace
52,7298The Planets, Op. 32: 1. Mars, The Bringer of War
51,5559The Planets, Op. 32: 4. Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity
49,20910Neptune, the Mystic
46,686albums
Holst: The Planets
The Planets, Op. 32
The Planets
Holst: Double Concerto / St Paul's Suite / Brook Green Suite
Holst: Cotswolds Symphony - Walt Whitman Overture
HOLST: The Planets / Suite de Ballet, Op. 10
Die Planeten
Composer's Collection: Gustav Holst
Christmas by the Fireside
Holst: The Planets, Op. 32
Holst: The Planets, Op. 32 - Ravel: Boléro, M. 81
HOLST: Vedic Hymns / Four Songs, Op. 35 / Humbert Wolfe Settings