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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 ...
Holst has worked at Moesgaard Museum since 2006. [1] He was the head of its Antiquarian Department from 2014 and was appointed its executive director in 2016. [2] [8] Under Holst's direction, the museum's budget initially went from a 10.4 million Danish krone deficit in 2016, to a 1.2 million kr. surplus in 2017, [9] but faced major economic difficulties in 2020 as a result of closures in ...
Henning Holst (1891–1975), Danish field hockey player; Imogen Holst (1907–1984), British conductor, composer and writer, daughter of Gustav Holst; Johan Jørgen Holst (1937–1994), Norwegian politician; Johan Throne Holst (1868–1946), Norwegian industrialist and politician; Kai Holst (1913–1945), Norwegian resistance fighter and member ...
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
Their son Hermann V. von Holst, the future architect, was born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1874. A call to a professorship of history in the newly reorganized University of Strasbourg brought him back to Germany in 1872. [3] In 1874, he was given the chair of modern history at University of Freiburg in the Grand Duchy of Baden where he stayed ...
Theodor Richard Edward von Holst [1] (3 September 1810 – 14 February 1844) was a nineteenth-century British literary painter. Von Holst was born in London, the fourth of the five children of Matthias and Katharina von Holst. Von Holst's drawing talents were noticed by the artist Henry Fuseli and Sir Thomas Lawrence. Lawrence even bought ...
Gustav Holst: 1874–1934: Composer, arranger and teacher, best known for his orchestral suite The Planets: Holst lived at 31 Gretna Road, Richmond from 1903 to 1908, then moved with his family to Barnes. The house at 10 The Terrace where he lived between 1908 and 1913 has a blue plaque in his honour. [3] [2] § Herbert Howells: 1892–1983
Amalia Holst (née Amalia von Justi; 10 February 1758 – 6 January 1829) was a German writer, intellectual, and early feminist. Her work examined traditional pedagogy and challenged Enlightenment writers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau .