GUSTAVUS HOLST English Composer (1874-1934) Gustavus Holst free midi download

GUSTAVUS THEODORE VON HOLST
21^stSeptember 1874 --- 25^thMay 1934

Original name Gustavus Theodore Von Holst (born 1874, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Eng.--died 1934, London), English composer and
music teacher noted for the excellence of his orchestration. His music combines an international flavour based on the styles of Maurice
Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, and others with a continuation of English Romanticism.

The son of a Swedish father and English mother, Holst studied at the Royal College of Music in London. His solo instrument was the
trombone, and for some years after leaving the college he made his living as a trombone player in the Carl Rosa Opera Company and
in various orchestras. He became music master at St. Paul's Girls' School in 1905 and director of music at Morley College in 1907.
These were the most important of his teaching posts, and he retained both of them until the end of his life.

Holst's pioneering methods, which entailed a rediscovery of the English vocal and choral tradition (folk song, madrigals and church
music), were influential in musical education in many English schools. Many of Holst's smaller choral works, folk-song arrangements,
and instrumental pieces (e.g. the St. Paul's Suite for strings [1913]) reflect the musical interests he sought to promote as a teacher.
In this activity he shared much common ground with Ralph Vaughan Williams, his friend and contemporary. Holst's stubbornly
independent, exploring mind had need, however, of a musical language less limited and more flexible than that offered by the English
folk-song school. He found fresh creative stimuli in the new European music (e.g., the innovations of Stravinsky), whose impact Holst
Stevenistered in his orchestral suite The Planets 1918, and also in Hindu literature, which gave rise to his "Sanskrit" period (1908-12),
during which he composed the opera Savitri and four sets of choral hymns from the Rigveda. The cosmopolitanism of Holsts style, rare
in English music of his period, lends him a special historical significance. Like such works as Egdon Heath for orchestra (1927), the
Choral Fantasia (1930) and the Fugal Concerto for flute, oboe and string orchestra (1923) he anticipated many trends associated with
later English composers who were to turn away from the self-consciously national style bred by the folk-song revival.

Holst's works include the opera Sita, composed during 1899-1906, The Hymn of Jesus, for chorus and orchestra (1917), Ode to Death,
for chorus and orchestra (1919) The Perfect Fool, an opera (1923), Choral Symphony (1923-24) the opera At the Boar's Head (1925)
Double Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra (1929), and Hammersmith, for orchestra (1930).
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Last Updated on 2024
By Steven Ritchie

And now for the Music

(929)"St Paul's Suite (Jig)". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie

(930)"Toccata for Piano". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie

(910)"Finale (The Dargason)". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie

(911)"Ostinato from St Paul's Suite". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie

(901)"Air". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie

(890)"Intermezzo". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie

(862)"Nocturne". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie

(845)"Dance from the Brook Green suite". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie

(823)"Brook Green Suite Prelude". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie

(800)"Christmas Day in the Morning". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie

(4214)"The Dance of the Sprits from the Ballet,The Perfect Fool, Opus.39, No.2". Sequencer Unknown.

(4213)"In The Bleak Midwinter". Sequencer Unknown.

(4212)"Shoemakr? Not sure of title". Sequenced by John Cowles.

--Thanks to Jeff Adams for the music below. Email (jeffadams2 @ juno.com)
"Suite No.2 in F, Mov 1, March". Sequenced by Jeff Adams.

"Suite No.2 in F, Mov.2, Song without Words, I'll love my love". Sequenced by Jeff Adams.

"Suite No.2 in F, Mov.3, Song of the Blacksmith". Sequenced by Jeff Adams.

"Suite No.2 in F, Mov.4, Fantasia on the Dargason. Sequenced by Jeff Adams.

Thanks to CRM114 for the music below.
"From the Planet Suite, Mars". Sequenced by CRM114.

"From the Planet Suite, Venus". Sequenced by CRM114.

"From the Planet Suite, Neptune". Sequenced by CRM114.

Thanks to George Pollen for the music below, please check my bookmark page for his website.
(2628)"No.1 Chaconne". Sequenced by George Pollen.

(2629)"No.2 Intermezzo". Sequenced by George Pollen.

(2630)"No.3 March". Sequenced by George Pollen.

Thanks to Mike Toerner for the music below. Email (ttrtoepid@netzero.net)
(1176)"Song Without Words, I'll love my love". Sequenced by Mike Toerner

(1175)"Second Suite In F For Military Band March". Sequenced by Mike Toerner

Thanks to Mark Fromm for the music below. Email (Phoebus15@aol.com)
(764)"Jig from St. Paul's Suite". Sequenced by Mark Fromm

Thanks to Various Sequecer's for the music below.
(465)"Uranus from the Planets Suite". Sequence by Jack Deckard.
(470)"Chaconne from Holst's 1st Suite in Eb, Mov.1". Sequenced by Dan.
(471)"Chaconne from Holst's 1st Suite in Eb, Mov.2". Sequenced by DJ.Palm.
(472)"Chaconne from Holst's 1st Suite in Eb, Mov.3". Sequenced by DJ.Palm.
(471)"Mercury from the Planets Suite". Sequenced by David Siu.
(470)"Jupiter from the Planets Suite". Sequenced by Jack Deckard.

(468)"Mars from the Planets Suite". Sequenced by Jack Hines.

(469)"Saturn from the Planets Suite". Sequenced by Jack Deckard.

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