The new edition consists of a slightly shortened version of `The Music of Gustav Holst', followed by a new work in which Imogen Holst brings her long experience of editing and performing the music to bear on certain aspects not discussed in the earlier book.
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The new edition consists of a slightly shortened version of `The Music of Gustav Holst', followed by a new work in which Imogen Holst brings her long experience of editing and performing the music to bear on certain aspects not discussed in the earlier book.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. A leading figure of English music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Gustav Holst is best known for his orchestral tour de force, The Planets. He composed music of startling originality in many forms, drawing inspiration from sources as varied as English folk-song, oriental melody, the Apocrypha, and Sanskrit literatures, as well as from such writers as Keats, Hardy, and Whitman. In this study of her father's music, Imogen Holst discusses Holst's pieces of the early 1890s, the musical consequences of his holiday in Algeria in 1908, problems of performance in The Planets, and editing Holt's music. The volume also includes a list of important dates in Holst's life, a list of his published work, and a bibliography.
