The Gustav Holst Website

by Kenric Taylor

This website was created to introduce you to the life and music of Gustav Holst, a British composer who was born in Cheltenham, England in 1874 and died in London in 1934. Holst was a composer of many choral part-songs, song cycles, operas and orchestral pieces. He is perhaps best known for his orchestral suite composed during the years 1914–1916, entitled The Planets.

I am striving to provide many different types of resources on this web site, whether it is sound clips of Holst's music for study purposes, out-of-print journal articles, cd reviews, other web links, or concert information. If you have any news that pertains to Gustav Holst, please feel free to email me.