Life
Born: 21 September 1874
Died: 25 May 1934
Biography
View the Wikipedia article on Gustav Holst.
List of choral works
Anthems
- The Evening Watch
- Sing me the men
- Psalm 86
- Psalm 148
- Let all mortal flesh keep silence
- Turn back O Man
- A Festival Chime
Carols
- This have I done for my true love
- Lullay my liking
- Of one that is so fair and bright
- Bring us in good ale
- Christmas Song: On this Day
- I Saw Three Ships
- Masters in This Hall
- Terly Terlow
- A Welcome Song
Choral Ballet
- The Golden Goose Op. 45 No. 1 (1926)
- The Morning of the Year Op. 45 No. 2 (1926-27)
Hymns
- Christ Hath a Garden
- From Glory to Glory Advancing (1905)
- Holy Ghost, Come Down Upon Thy Children (1905)
- I Sought Thee Round About, O Thou My God (1925)
- I vow to thee, my country
- In This World, the Isle of Dreams (1925)
- O God, Beyond all Praising (not available - text still under copyright)
- O Valiant Hearts (1925)
- Onward, Christian Soldiers (1925)
- Sing to the Lord
Large Works
- A Choral Fantasia Op. 51 (1930)
- Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda
- First Group, Op. 26 No. 1 (1908-10)
- Battle Hymn
- To the Unknown God
- Funeral Hymn
- Second Group, Op. 26 No. 2 (1909)
- To Varuna
- To Agni
- Funeral Chant
- Third Group, Op. 26 No. 3 (1910)
- Hymn to the Dawn
- Hymn to the Waters
- Hymn to Vena
- Hymn of the Travellers
- Fourth Group, Op. 26 No. 4 (1912)
- Hymn to Agni
- Hymn to Soma
- Hymn to Manas
- Hymn to Indra
- The Cloud Messenger Op. 30 (1909-10)
- First Choral Symphony Op. 41 (1923-24)
- Prelude: Invocation to Pan
- Song and Bacchanal
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Scherzo: Fancy
- Folly's Song
- Finale
- The Hymn of Jesus Op. 37 (1917)
- King Estmere Op. 17 (1903)
- Ode to Death Op. 38 (1919)
Opera
- At the Boar's Head Op. 42 (1924)
- The Idea (1896)
- The Perfect Fool Op. 39 (1918-22)
- The Revoke Op. 1 (1895)
- Savitri Op. 25 (1908)
- Sita Op. 23 (1899-1906)
- The Wandering Scholar Op. 50 (1929-30)
- The Youth's Choice Op. 11 (1902)
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Partsongs
- 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
- Five Part-Songs Op. 9A (1897-1900)
- Love is enough
- To Sylvia
- Autumn
- Come Away, Death
- A Love Song
- Five Part-Songs 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)
- Soft and gently (SSA)
- The Autumn is old (SATB)
- Winter and the birds (SATB)
- 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 Op. 53 (1931-32)
- Intercession
- Good Friday
- Drinking Song
- A Love Song
- How Mighty are the Sabbaths
- Before Sleep
- Songs from 'The Princess' Op. 20A (1905)
- Sweet and Low
- The Slendour Falls
- Tears, Idle Tears
- O Swallow, Swallow
- Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal
- The Swallow leaves her nest (1913)
- Twelve Humbert Wolfe songs, 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
- Twelve Welsh Folk Songs (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
- Two Eastern Pictures (1911)
- The Spring
- The Summer
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