Gustav Holst: A Biography

by Imogen Holst

Book Overview

This definitive biography of Gustav Holst (1874-1934), written by Holst's daughter, draws on personal reminiscences and Holst's letters to such friends as Ralph Vaughan Williams to provide an intimate and revealing account of the great English musician's life and work. Composer of the immensely popular Planets and leader with Vaughan Williams of the early twentieth-century renaissance in English music, Holst spent his life struggling against ill health...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192821938
• ISBN13: 9780192821935
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"