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Ode to Death, H. 144, Op. 38, is a musical composition for chorus and orchestra written by English composer Gustav Holst (1874–1934) in 1919. It is a setting of a passage from Walt Whitman's 1865 elegy When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, which was written to mourn the death of American president Abraham Lincoln.
Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite The Planets , he composed many other works across a range of genres, although none achieved comparable success.
All People That on Earth Do Dwell [arr. Holst] for mixed chorus and orchestra: Choral: 140: 37: 1917-1919: The Hymn of Jesus: for 2 mixed choruses, female semi-chorus and orchestra: text chosen and translated from the Apocryphal Acts of St. John, next to the hymn Pange lingua gloriosi proelium certaminis: Choral: 144: 38: 1919: Ode to Death ...
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Gustav Holst – Ode to Death [6] Charles Villiers Stanford – A Song of Agincourt; Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (revised version) [7]
After World War I, Gustav Holst turned to the last section of Whitman's elegy to mourn friends killed in the war in composing his Ode to Death (1919) for chorus and orchestra. Holst saw Whitman "as a New World prophet of tolerance and internationalism as well as a new breed of mystic whose transcendentalism offered an antidote to encrusted ...
The Choral Symphony is a work by Gustav Holst for soprano soloist, chorus, and orchestra in a setting of verses by John Keats.Written in 1923–24, it was premiered in Leeds Town Hall on October 7, 1925, conducted by Albert Coates with Dorothy Silk as soloist.
68 Gustav Holst. 69 Arthur Honegger. ... Angel of Death (1917–18) Ernest Chausson. Viviane ... Ode to Victory. Op. 29 (1901, destroyed)