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The lists cover unpublished juvenilia from Holst's early teens to final works completed more than sixty years later. Title formats are those given in Christopher Tinker’s listing of works reprinted in the 2010 edition of ‘Imogen Holst: A Life in Music'.
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
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]
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.
Five of Holst's settings of English translations of hymns from the ancient Sanskrit Rig Veda, composed between 1907 and 1912, are in septuple meter, specifically "Song of the Frogs" and "Creation" (songs 6 and 8 from his Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op. 24, for voice and piano, composed in 1907–08) [36] as well as "Funeral Hymn" (Choral Hymns ...
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
In 1916 Holst was living in a country cottage two miles south of Thaxted in Essex. [4] There he became aware of the ancient Cornish carol "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day" thanks to the town's vicar, Conrad Noel, [5] who, having come across it in an 1833 collection edited by William Sandys, copied out the words and pinned them up in church.
It was Holst's first wind band work after 19 years, his last being the Second Suite in F for Military Band. Holst also orchestrated a version for a full orchestra in 1931. The piece is based on Holst's love for the London borough of Hammersmith. [1] Imogen Holst, Gustav Holst's daughter, writes in her biography of Gustav: