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The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1917.In the last movement the orchestra is joined by a wordless female chorus.
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Opera in 1 act; libretto by the composer based on William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2: Opera: 176: 50: 1929–30: The Wandering Scholar: Chamber Opera in 1 act; libretto by Clifford Bax founded on an incident in Helen Waddell's The Wandering Scholars. Ballet: 149: 1921: The Lure, or The Moth and the Flame: Ballet: 150: 39: 1918 ...
Holst had not wanted to include the Earth in his suite because the suite was based on astrology, and Earth has no astrological significance. [57] Pluto was discovered in 1930, four years before Holst's death, and was hailed by astronomers as the ninth planet. (In 2006 it was redesignated as a dwarf planet.) Holst expressed no interest in ...
Holst was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the elder of the two children of Adolph von Holst, a professional musician, and his wife, Clara Cox, née Lediard. She was of mostly British descent, [n 1] daughter of a respected Cirencester solicitor; [2] the Holst side of the family was of mixed Swedish, Latvian and German ancestry, with at least one professional musician in each of the ...
Gustav Holst's "First Suite in E-flat for Military Band", first composed in 1909, is considered one of the cornerstone masterworks in the concert band repertoire. Great recording. Now all we need is the Second Suite and a replacement for that horrid musopen recording of Jupiter on The Planets nvm found a USAF recording :).
"I Vow to Thee, My Country" is a British patriotic hymn, created in 1921 when music by Gustav Holst had a poem by Sir Cecil Spring Rice set to it. The music originated as a wordless melody, which Holst later named "Thaxted", taken from the "Jupiter" movement of Holst's 1917 suite The Planets.
The Manse in Thaxted, where Gustav Holst lived from 1917 to 1925 "Thaxted" is a hymn tune by the English composer Gustav Holst, based on the stately theme from the middle section of the Jupiter movement of his orchestral suite The Planets and named after Thaxted, the English village where he lived much of his life.