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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]
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]
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
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
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
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
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)
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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