Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Welcome to the Gustav Holst Web Site, by Kenric Taylor.
This website was created to introduce you to the life and music of Gustav Holst, a British composer who was born in Cheltenham, England in 1874 and died in London in 1934. Holst was a composer of many choral part-songs, song cycles, operas and orchestral pieces. He is perhaps best known for his orchestral suite composed during the years 1914–1916, entitled The Planets.
Thank you so much for visiting this website. I am striving to provide many different types of resources on this web site, whether it is sound clips of Holst’s music for study purposes, out-of-print journal articles, album reviews, other web links, or concert information. If you have any news that pertains to Gustav Holst, please feel free to email me.
Note: I’m in the processing up re-uploading and re-editing content from the old website into this new redesign. Thanks for your patience!
Biography
A brief biography of Gustav Holst created from the lecture notes of British Music scholar, Ian lace.
Compositions
A catalog of music by Holst which contains notes about some of the pieces and publisher information.
Bibliography
An index of books, journals and other writings used to create this website and other recommended reading.
