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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 Holst Birthplace Museum (now called Holst Victorian House) was founded by Gustav's daughter, Imogen Holst, in 1974 during centenary ceremonies for Holst's birth. The museum houses a number of mementoes, including the piano on which Holst composed The Planets, as well as pictures, books, some letters and manuscripts. The Holst Victorian ...
Imogen Holst (1907–1984), daughter of English composer of Swedish origin, Gustav Holst. Imogen, like her father, was a musical educationist, conductor and composer of folksong arrangements, and was associated with Benjamin Britten in the Aldeburgh Festivals. Date: 29 May 1926: Source: Hulton Archive/Getty Images: Author
Henry and his new wife Imogen were heavy drinkers and did not have a good relationship, and Henry Swinhoe himself was taken to court after drunkenly trying to upset a pram that carried the baby Gustav Holst. [4] The second wife, Imogen left the house shortly before the husband died, in 1876 and died shortly afterwards herself in 1878 in Clifton ...
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The lists cover unpublished juvenilia from Holst's early teens to final works completed more than sixty years later.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'.
The house was originally built in 1927 and redesigned in 1984 by businessman Mark Slotkin. The property boasts a pool and private tennis court, alongside a two-story guesthouse and two-car garage.
The Holst Library is connected to the Maltings. Many of the original contents were donated by Imogen Holst, who was a close friend of Benjamin Britten and an artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival from 1956 to 1977, and it was named the Gustav Holst Library as a memorial to her father. According to her press release for the Aldeburgh ...