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Imogen Clare Holst CBE (née von Holst; [1] 12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and festival administrator. . The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she is particularly known for her educational work at Dartington Hall in the 1940s, and for her 20 years as joint artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festiv
Below is a sortable list of compositions by Gustav Holst. The works are categorized by genre, H. catalogue number (A Thematic Catalogue of Gustav Holst's Music by Imogen Holst, London, Faber Music Ltd., 1974), opus number, date of composition and title.
Oxford University Press published a full score of the Lyric Movement in 1948, a reduction for viola and piano by Imogen Holst in 1971, [5] and a revised edition of the full score in 1986. [19] A facsimile edition by Imogen Holst and Colin Matthews of Holst's original manuscript was published by Faber Music in 1977. [20]
Imogen Holst similarly writes that it is "as unlike conventional church music as it could possibly be". [40] The poet Peter Porter writes that Rejoice in the Lamb "enshrines some of the purest responses ever made by a musician to the very heart of that mystery which we know as poetry". [ 41 ]
Britten wrote the part songs in the tradition of Edward Elgar, Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford. [4] He scored the works for a four-part unaccompanied choir. [2] He took into account that a student choir would perform the premiere on 23 July 1950 in the open air. The first performance was conducted at Dartington Hall by Imogen Holst.
"This Have I Done for My True Love", or "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day", Op. 34, no. 1 [H128], [1] is a motet [2] or part song [3] composed in 1916 by Gustav Holst. The words are taken from an ancient carol , and the music is so strongly influenced by English folk music that it has sometimes been mistaken for a traditional folk song itself.
Imogen Holst summarised the folk tunes which her father used in the score as follows: [4] John Playford, The English Dancing Master: 28 country dance tunes; Cecil Sharp, published editions: 4 morris tunes, 1 traditional country dance; Chappell, Popular Music of the Olden Time: 3 ballads; G. B. Gardiner, manuscript collection: 2 folksongs