Holst

Holst Holst- The Planets Suite Gustav Theodore Holst was born on the 21st of September 1874. His great-grandfather came from Sweden, which made his Father Swedish and his Mother was English. He studied at the Royal College of England, with the trombone as his main instrument. He hadn’t started with the trombone in the beginning, but moved onto it after neuritis affected his first instrument, the piano. One of his close friends was the great British composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams. Holst gave up playing at the turn of the century and took charge of St. Paul’s Girls’ School, writing music in his spare time. He even wrote the St. Paul’s Suite for Strings for the school orchestra. Later, he became interested in music and wrote a suite (group) of seven pieces based on each of the planets for an orchestra of over a hundred players. Each piece had the name of a planet and a subtitle too. Each movement displayed the characteristics assigned to the planet by Greek mythology. He died on the 24th May 1934. Mars- the bringer of war started with the bass holst, music, melody, each, war, two, suite, sound, six, made, feeling, wrote, trombone, time, strings, started, st, soft, school, quavers, planets, planet, piece, paul’s, orchestra, oboes, notes, note, making, low, instrument, harmony, gave, even, crochets, calm