biography
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Holst, Gustav (Theodore)
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| (1874–1934)
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| biography:
| Composer, born of Swedish origin in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, SWC England, UK. He studied at the Royal College of Music, London, but neuritis in his hand prevented him from becoming a concert pianist. From 1905 he taught music at St Paul's School, Hammersmith, and from 1907 at Morley College. He emerged as a major composer with the seven-movement suite The Planets (1914–16), and gave up most of his teaching in 1925. Among his other major works are The Hymn of Jesus (1917), his comic operas The Perfect Fool (1922) and At the Boar's Head (1924), and his orchestral tone poem, Egdon Heath (1927). |
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