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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
The lists cover unpublished juvenilia from Holst's early teens to final works completed more than sixty years later.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'.
The Fugal Concerto was composed while Holst was convalescing from a serious fall in which he had struck his head, and from a subsequent nervous breakdown. Having previously committed himself to conduct his own works at the University of Michigan, he embarked for America on the RMS Aquitania in April 1923, two months after the accident, and began a draft of what he called "The World's Shortest ...
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.
A version of Rejoice in the Lamb for chorus, solos and orchestral accompaniment was arranged by Imogen Holst and published by Boosey & Hawkes. Holst conducted the first performance on 20 June 1952 in Aldeburgh Parish Church for the Aldeburgh Festival, which was co-founded by Britten in 1948. [44]
Imogen Holst composed, conducted, danced, played the piano, taught, wrote lots of books, started orchestras and choirs, ran festivals... and so on. She never really cut it as a composer, and her music is not much heard, but her huge contribution to Britain's musical life over many decades is widely acknowledged.
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Aside from sacred music sung mostly in choral evensong services, the choir also performs a wide range of music, including contemporary mass settings and choral works by Eleanor Alberga, Charles Stanford, Herbert Howells, and Imogen Holst, with the choir having recently sung the world première of Ed Nesbit's (one of the college composition ...