- List of compositions by Gustav Holst
The following is a selected list of the compositions by
Gustav Holst : [ "Gustav Holst (1874-1934) | Compositions" (online), Kenric Taylor, 2006, GustavHolst.info webpage: [http://www.gustavholst.info/compositions/opera.php GHolstInfo-Compositions] .]
* "Margrete's Cradle Song", Op. 4/2
*"Overture: Walt Whitman" (1899 )Notes to "The Mystic Trumpeter" study score, Novello & Company, London.]
* "6 Songs", Op. 16
*"The Mystic Trumpeter", Scena for Soprano and Orchestra (1904 , revised1912 ) Op.18/H.71:In this work, Holst sets to musicWalt Whitman 's poem "From Noon to Starry Night".Colin Matthews notes that while Holst had not yet developed a musical style of his own, this early work shows "conviction and individuality", and has "few parallels in British music of this period".
* "A Song of the Night" H74, Op. 19/1
* "Two Songs Without Words" Op.22 (1906)
*#Country Song
*#Marching Song
* "A Somerset Rhapsody" H87, Op. 21/2 (1907 )
* "Savitri",chamber opera (1908 ):"Savitri" is a one-scene retelling of theHindu mythSavitri and Satyavan , focusing on the death of Satyavan and Savitri's appeals toYama (the lord of death). It is written for three characters and a very small orchestra.
* "First Suite in E-flat for Military Band " (1909 ):: 1. Chaconne, 2. Intermezzo, 3. March
* "Beni Mora (Oriental Suite)" Op.29 No.1 (1909 –1910 ):: 1. First Dance, 2. Second Dance, 3. Finale
* "Invocation for cello and piano or orchestra" H75, Op. 19/2 (1911 )
* "Second Suite in F for Military Band " (1911 )
*# March: Morris Dance, Swansea Town, Claudy Banks
*# Song Without Words "I Love my Love"
*# Song of the Blacksmith
*# Fantasia on the "Dargason"
* "Psalm 86" H.117 No.2 (Psalmo 86), (1912 )
* "Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda" (1908 –1912 ) "Encyclopædia Britannica Online", "Gustav Holst", 2006, Britannica.com webpage: [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9040827/Gustav-Holst Britannica-GHolst] .]
*# First Group (for women's chorus and orchestra) (H.96)
*## Battle Hymn
*## To the Unknown God
*# Second Group (for chorus and orchestra) (H.98)
*## To Varuna (God of the Waters)
*## To Agni (God of Fire)
*## Funeral Chant
*# Third Group (for women's chorus and harp) (H.99)
*##Hymn to the Dawn
*## Hymn to the Waters
*## Hymn to Vena (Sun rising through the mist)
*## Hymn of the Travellers
*# Fourth Group (for men's chorus and orchestra (H.100)
*## Hymn to Soma (the juice of a herb)
*## Hymn to Manas (the spirit of a dying man)
* "Two Eastern Pictures" (for women's voices and harp) (H.112)
*# Spring
*# Summer
* "St Paul's Suite " The school does not use a dotted "St." in their title "St Paul's Girls' School" (see St Paul's website: [http://www.spgs.org/website/index.htm SPGS.org] ).] Op.29 No.2 ("Finale" is another arrangement of 4th movement in "Second Suite") (1913 )
*# Jig
*# Ostinato
*# Intermezzo
*# Finale (The Dargason)
* "Hymn to Dionysus" Op.31 No.2(H.116) (1913 )
* "The Planets Suite" Op. 32 (1916 )
*# Mars, the Bringer of War
*# Venus, the Bringer of Peace
*# Mercury, the Winged Messenger
*# Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (main theme:"I Vow to Thee, My Country ")
*# Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age
*# Uranus, the Magician
*# Neptune, the Mystic
* "4 Songs", Op. 35
* "The Hymn of Jesus" (1917 )
* "Ode to Death", for chorus and orchestra1919
* "Short Festival Te Deum" (H.145) (1919 )
* "The Perfect Fool" Op.39 ballet (1918 –1922 )
* "Seven Choruses from the Alcestis of Euripides (1920 )
* "Fugal Overture" H151, Op. 40/1 (1922 )
* "Fugal Concerto for Flute, Oboe & String Orchestra" H152, Op. 40/2 (1923 )
* "First Choral Symphony", for chorus, soprano solo and orchestra (1924 )
* "At the Boar's Head", an opera (1925 )
* "Egdon Heath", for orchestra (Homage to Thomas Hardy) H172, Op. 47 (1927 )
* "A Moorside Suite" (1928 ):: 1. Scherzo, 2. Nocturne, 3. March
* "Double Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra" Op.49 (1929):: 1. Scherzo/Allegro, 2. Lament/Andante, 3. Variations on a Ground
* "The Wandering Scholar"opera , (1929 –1930 )
* "Choral Fantasia" (1930 )
* "Hammersmith: Prelude and Scherzo" H178, Op. 52 (1930 )
**This was premiered at the same 1931 concert asWilliam Walton 's "Belshazzar's Feast"
* "Lyric Movement" (1933 )
* "Brook Green Suite" (H.190) (1933 )
*# Prelude
*# Air
*# Dance
* "Scherzo", part of an unfinishedSymphony (1933-4)References
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