Gustav Holst was a British composer best known for his orchestral suite ‘The Planets’. A suite is a group of individual ...

It is a peculiar coincidence that Gustav Holst completed the first sketch of Mars, the Bringer of War—his most bellicose piece of music—just before WWI began. Like his good friend Ralph Vaughan ...

From the archive, 11 October 1920: Samuel Langford reviews Gustav Holst conducting five of his The Planets at Birmingham Town Hall Birmingham is at present going headlong both for the municipalisation ...

As well as creating some of the 20th century's most rousing classical compositions, Gustav Holst was also a influential figure in creating an 'orgy of song' in the Essex village of Thaxted. Gustav ...

These are just some of the fascinating facts to have surfaced after the discovery of an unfinished film about the life of the famous composer. The footage, originally filmed in the late 1970s, has ...

One hundred years ago, a symphonic blockbuster was born in London. The Planets, by Gustav Holst, premiered on this date in 1918. The seven-movement suite, depicting planets from our solar system, has ...

Some composers are fated to be known by just one piece. Gustav Holst is one. His Planets suite is one of the great orchestral hits, endlessly pillaged for film and advertising soundtracks. And yet The ...

Making a film – any film – is a journey of exploration. If you knew at the beginning what you know at the end, why bother to make the film? This is one of the reasons I am often spurned by ...

Experts believe one of the works, Folk Songs from Somerset, has not been played or heard in more than a century Two original scores from English composer Gustav Holst have been found in New Zealand, ...

The piano which Gustav Holst used to compose his orchestral suite, The Planets, has been put up for adoption. The Holst Victorian House in Cheltenham has launched an "adopt an object" scheme to try ...

Gustav Holst's The Planets is one of the best-known pieces of classical music written by a British composer. How strange, then, that we know so little of the composer's other music – or, for that ...