Gustav Holst &#; his family
A son of Cheltenham
Gustav Holst was born at 4 Pittville Terrace (now 4 Clarence Road) Cheltenham, on 21st September His father was Adolphus von Holst, a piano teacher, and his mother was Clara von Holst (née Lediard).
Gustav&#;s mother died in when he was only eight years old. Gustav and his little brother Emil were then looked after by their aunt Nina who, along with his father, taught him how to play the piano and compose music. He attended Cheltenham Grammar School (now Pate’s Grammar School). And when he was twenty one years old he held his first concert at the Montpellier Rotunda (now The Ivy).
A teacher and composer
Gustav then moved to London to study music composition at the Royal College of Music. In he became a music teacher at St Paul’s Girls’ School in London.
Whilst working as a music teacher, Holst wrote many pieces of music. His most famous work is &#;The Planets Suite&#;, written between and This consists of seven very different pieces of music, each representing the different ‘personalities’ of the planets.
Gustav Holst and the First World War
Although he was deemed unfit for military service in the First World War, in Gusta
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A Biography of Gustav Holst
Part 1:
by David TrippettPreface
Described by Vaughan Williams as 'a great composer, a great teacher, and a great friend', the life of Gustav Holst presents a fascinating perspective on music and musicians in society during the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century. The prejudices against which Holst struggled as a provincial English composer reveal a divided musico-social fabric in England, that of enthusiastic domestic amateurism as opposed to conservative and perceptibly 'foreign' professionalism. His was a career that spanned the transition from the age of predominant domestic music-making to that of the gramo
Gustav Holst - Biography
Gustav Holst
Gustavus Theodore von Holst (September 21, &#; May 25, ) was an English composer with Latvian (and some Spanish) roots.
Born in Cheltenham, where he was educated at Pate's Grammar School, he went on to study at the Royal College of Music in London. His best-known work is probably his orchestral suiteThe Planets, completed in , although the composer himself did not count it as one of his best creations and later often complained that other works were completely eclipsed by it. The Planets (&#;) was partly inspired by meditations on his own horoscope/natal chart and dealt with the 'seven influences of destiny and constituents of our spirit.' Holst was especially influenced by a 19th-centuryastrologer called Raphael, whose book concerning the planets' role in world affairs led Holst to develop the grand vision of the planets that made The Planets such an enduring success.
Holst's relatively small output for the wind band guaranteed him a position as the medium's cornerstone, as seen in innumerable present-day programmes featuring his two Suites for Military Band.
His one work for brass band, A Moorside Suite, remains an impo
1. The Early Years
Gustav Holst was born on 21 September in Cheltenham, England, the first of two children to Adolph and Clara von Holst.
Adolph was an accomplished pianist who taught piano and practiced many hours during the day, much to the neglect of his wife, Clara, and their two children. Adolph's family was of Swedish origin. One of his ancestors served as a court composer in Russia until he fell out of favor and exiled to Germany. Soon afterwards, the family emigrated to England. Holst's mother, Clara, was a piano student of Adolph when first they met. Clara's great - great grandmother was from Spain, where she had been an actress. She was soon married to an Irishman and moved to Ireland. Clara was sweet, gentle and unassuming but she was not very strong. She died soon after the birth of her second child, when Gustav was only eight.
Adolph's sister, Nina, was brought in to look after the children, but unfortunately she, too, was distracted by the piano. In her youth, Nina had spread petals in the path of Liszt.
Gustav was an oversensitive and somewhat miserable child. His eyes were weak, but no one realized that he had to wear spectacles. His chest was also weak, an
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