![]() ![]() This work is also heavily influenced by Wagner.ġ906: Holst failed to win the Ricordi Prize, a composition competition, with his opera, “Sita”. He conducts his new large scale work for soprano and orchestra, “The Mystic Trumpeter” at Queens Hall, London which is based on poetry by Walt Whitman. Paul’s Girls’ School in Hammersmith, London. He becaomes interested in Hindu philosophy and Sanskrit literature.ġ898: Holst joins the Carl Rosa opera company and plays trombone in the orchestra.ġ900: Holst writes his Cotswold Symphony which included a memorial to William Morris.ġ901: He marries Isobel Harrison on 22nd June 1901, at Fulham Register Office.ġ905: He is appointed as the Director of Music at St. He also meets Isobel Harrison for the first time. ![]() He begins to conduct the Hammersmith Socialist Choir at William Morris’s house in Hammersmith Mall. He joins the Hammersmith Socialist Club and listened to lectures by George Bernard Shaw. He composes his Opus 1, opera “The Revoke” which has never been performed publicly. He becomes a vegetarian and also suffers from much ill health at this time.ġ894: Holst becomes Organist and Choirmaster at the Bourton-on-the-Water Choral Society.ġ895: He wins an open Scholarship for composition and was thus allowed to continue his studies at the Royal College of Music. He hears Bach’s Mass in B Minor at the Three Choirs Festival at Worcester which has a profound effect on him. ![]() He composes his first piece, a two-act operetta, entitled “Lansdown Castle” which was inspired by the work of Arthur Sullivan.ġ893: He starts at the Royal College of Music, where he meets Ralph Vaughan Williams. Timeline of Gustav Holst:ġ892: Holst becomes the organist and choirmaster at St Laurence’s Church Wyck Rissington, Gloucestershire at the age of only 17 for one year. Royal College of Music, London where he studied composition with Charles Stanford. Through the work of his daughter, Imogen, much of his music that would have been forgotten has been brought to the public.Gustav Holst’s Birthplace in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (copyright Anthony Blagg) Education:Ĭheltenham Grammar School. Holst died in 1934 following an operation to remove an ulcer. His Hymn of Jesus exemplifies much more intensity than much of his other works. However he was much more a choral composer than orchestral. In 1914, Holst began work on The Planets, and this was to become his most famous piece. Holst was an intense nationalist, and after his rejection from the Royal military because of his neuritis and bad eyesight, he became a conductor of the military band, and toured much of Europe supporting the British through music. He was an avid Henry Purcell admirer, giving the first performance of Purcell’s "Fairy Queen" since 1697 and thus was very instrumental in the Purcell revival. ![]() Paul’s Girls School, and he held this position until his death. In 1905, he was named director of music at St. His was awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Music and started his composing career, creating little jigs based on other friends poems. Stricken with neuritis in his right hand, he was forced to give up the piano, but this did not deter his composing. He studied at the Royal College of Music, and this is where he met his lifelong friend Ralph Vaughan Williams. Gustav Holst was born into a very musical family as a child, he was taught the piano, organ and trombone. ![]()
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