Life
Born: 21 September 1874
Died: 25 May 1934
Biography
View the Wikipedia article on Gustav Holst.
Choral Works
Hymns
- By weary stages H170 (1927) [HILL CREST]
- Christ Hath a Garden
- Filled with the Spirit’s power H168 (1927) [CHILSWELL]
- From glory to glory advancing H73 (1905) [SHEEN]
- God is Love H133 (1925) [THEODORIC]
- Holy Ghost, Come Down Upon Thy Children H73 (1905) [BOSSINEY]
- I Sought Thee Round About, O Thou My God H161 (1925) [MONK STREET]
- I vow to thee, my country H148 (1921) [THAXTED]
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- In This World, the Isle of Dreams H161 (1925) [BROOK END]
- O God, Beyond all Praising (N/A - text under copyright)
- O Valiant Hearts H161 (1925) [VALIANT HEARTS]
- Onward, Christian Soldiers H161 (1925) [PRINCE RUPERT]
- Our blest Redeemer [ESSEX]
- Sing to the Lord
- What heroes thou hast bred H103 (1909) [STEPNEY]
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Sacred Works
Carols/Christmas Music
Secular Works
- If You Love Songs
- Lovely Venus
- The Fields of Sorrow
- David's Lament for Jonathan
- O Strong of Heart
- Truth of All Truth
- Evening on the Moselle
- If it were the Time of Lilies
- The Evening Watch H159 (1925)
- Five Part-Songs H48; Op. 9A (1897-1900)
- Love is enough
- To Sylvia
- Autumn Song
- Come Away, Death
- A Love Song
- Five Part-Songs H61; Op. 12 (1902-3)
- Dream Tryst
- Ye little birds
- Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee
- Now is the Month of Maying
- Come to me
- Four Part-songs ed. Imogen Holst (no CPDL edition)
- O Lady, leave that silken thread (SSATBB) H4 (1895)
- Soft and gently (SSA)
- The Autumn is old (SATB) H1 (1895)
- Winter and the birds (SATB) A1/40
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- The Hawthorn Tree (arr.)
- Hecuba's Lament (SSA) H115; Op. 31 No. 1 (1911)
- Home they brought her warrior dead (SSA) H81 (1905)
- The Homecoming H120 (1913)
- Hymn to Dionysus (SSA) H116 Op. 31 No. 2 (1913)
- I love Thee H57 (1912)
- In Loyal Bonds United H113 (1911)
- In youth is pleasure H176 (1908)
- It was a lover and his lass H50 (1890s)
- Light leaves whisper H20 (1896)
- Now rest Thee from all care H78 (1908)
- O England My Country H103 (1909)
- O Spiritual Pilgrim H188 (1933)
- Ode to Charles Kennedy Scott H157 (1925)
- Roadways H181 (1931)
- Seven choruses from the Alcestis of Euripides H146 (1920)
- Seven Part-Songs H162; Op. 44 (1925-26)
- Say, Who Is This?
- O Love, I Complain
- Angel Spirits of Sleep
- When First We Met
- Sorrow and Joy
- Love on My Heart from Heaven Fell
- Assemble, All Ye Maidens
- I sowed the seeds of love
- There was a tree
- Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
- Song of the Blacksmith
- I love my love
- Swansea Town
- Six Choruses H186; Op. 53 (1931-32)
- Intercession
- Good Friday
- Drinking Song
- A Love Song
- How Mighty are the Sabbaths
- Before Sleep
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- A Song of London H102A (1909)
- Songs from 'The Princess' (SSA) H80; Op. 20A (1905)
- Sweet and Low
- The Slendour Falls
- Tears, Idle Tears
- O Swallow, Swallow
- Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal
- Sing me the men H160 (1924-25)
- Spring it is Cheery H3 (1895)
- The Stars are with the Voyager H2 (1895)
- The Swallow leaves her nest (SSA) H119 (1913)
- There’s a voice in the Wind H15 (1896)
- Thou didst delight my Eyes H58 (1903)
- Two chants from the Passing of the Essenes H180 (1930)
- Twelve Welsh Folk Songs H183 (1930-31)
- Lisa Lân
- Green Grass
- The Dove
- Awake, Awake
- The Nightingale and Linnet
- The Mother-In-Law
- The First Love
- O 'twas on a Monday morning
- Mae 'nghariadd i'n Fenws (My Sweetheart's Like Venus)
- White Summer Rose
- The Lively Pair
- The Lover's Complaint
- The Spring
- The Summer
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Choral Ballet
- The Golden Goose H163; Op. 45 No. 1 (1926)
- The Morning of the Year H164; Op. 45 No. 2 (1926-27)
Larger Works
Solo Voice
- Hymns from the Rig Veda (Vedic Hymns) H90; Op. 24 (1920)
- Ushas (Dawn)
- Varuna I (Sky)
- Maruts (Stormclouds)
- Indra (God of Storm and Battle)
- Varuna II (The Waters)
- Song of the Frogs
- Vac (Speech)
- Creation
- Faith
- Twelve Humbert Wolfe songs H174; Op. 48 (1929)
- Persephone
- Things Lovelier
- Now in These Fairylands
- A Little Music
- The Thought
- The Floral Bandit
- Envoi
- The Dream-City
- Journey's End
- In the Street of Lost Time
- Rhyme
- Betelgeuse
Opera
- At the Boar's Head H156; Op. 42 (1924)
- The Idea (for children) H21 (1896)
- The Perfect Fool H150; Op. 39 (1918-22)
- The Revoke H7; Op. 1 (1895)
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- Savitri H96; Op. 25 (1908)
- Sita H89; Op. 23 (1899-1906)
- The Wandering Scholar H176; Op. 50 (1929-30)
- The Youth's Choice H60; Op. 11 (1902)
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