Gustav Holst [Hardcover]

Imogen Holst (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1969

This definitive biography of Gustav Holst (1874-1934), written by Holst's daughter, draws on personal reminiscences and Holst's letters to such friends as Ralph Vaughan Williams to provide an intimate and revealing account of the great English musician's life and work. Composer of the immensely popular Planets and leader with Vaughan Williams of the early twentieth-century renaissance in English music, Holst spent his life struggling against ill health and depression. Yet he did so with a remarkable and good-humored resilience that enabled him to produce some of the century's best-loved music. This paperback edition includes a new introduction, new illustrations, and a list of Holst's works.

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About the Author

Imogen Holst (1907-1984), the only child of Gustav Holst, was a musician of outstanding ability : composer conductor, writer and scholar, she was the first Director of Music in the Arts Department at Dartington in the 1940s; assistant to Benjamin Britten from 1952-64; an Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival, where she was a pioneer of early music; and friend, colleague and inspirer of many eminent musicians. For the last twenty years of her life she devoted much of her time to her father's legacy, performing recording and editing his music, as well as compiling the definitive Thematic Catalogue of his works for his centenary in 1974. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 226 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press; 2nd edition (August 1969)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 019315417X
• ISBN-13: 978-0193154179
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,279,815 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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