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Holst, Gustav

Place of Birth: 
Cheltenham - Great Britain
Date of Birth: 
21/09/1874
Place of death: 
London - Great Britain
Date of Death: 
25/05/1934
Copyright: 
Imogen Holst, 'Gustav Holst, a biography', London: Oxford University Press, 1958, pp. 200 Imogen Holst, 'Holst, Gustav (us Theodore von)', in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. S. Sadie, London: Macmillan, 1995, VIII, 659-666 Richard Greene, 'Holst, The planets', Cambridge: University Press, 1995, pp. 100
Remarks: 
Catalogue numbers H. = Numbers as listed in 'I. Holst: A thematic catalogue of Gustav Holst's music', 1974 Works without date of composition have been listed chronologically based on the date of death of the composer.
A/A Title
1 12 Songs: 1. Persephone, 2. Things lovelier, 3. Now in these fairylands, 4. A little music, 5. The thought, 6. The floral bandit, 7. Envoi, 8. The dream-city, 9. Journey's end, 10. In the street of lost time, 11. Rhyme, 12. Betelgeuse
2 12 Welsh folk songs
3 2 Anthems: 1. Man born to toil, 2. Eternal Father
4 2 Carols: no. 1 A welcome song
5 2 Carols: no. 2 Terly Terlow
6 2 Eastern pictures: 1. Spring, 2. Summer
7 2 Folk song fragments: 1. O I hae seen the roses blaw, 2. The shoemaker
8 2 Partsongs: 1. The corn song, 2. Song of the lumbermen
9 2 Psalms: no. 86, no. 148
10 3 Carols: 1. Christmas song, 2. I saw three ships, 3. Masters in this hall
11 4 Old English Carols: 1. A babe is born, 2. Now let us sing, 3. Jesu, thou the Virgin-born, 4. The Saviour of the world
12 4 Partsongs: 1. Song of ship-builders, 2. Song of the shoemakers, 3. Song of the fishermen, 4. Song of the drovers
13 4 Songs: 1. Jesu sweet, now will I sing, 2. My soul has nought but fire and ice, 3. I sing of a maiden, 4. My Leman is so true
14 4 Songs: 1. Slumber-song, 2. Margrete's cradle-song, 3. Soft and gently, 4. Awake, my hear
15 5 Partsongs: 1. Dream tryst, 2. Ye little birds, 3. Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, 4. Now is the month of Maying, 5. Come to me
16 5 Partsongs: 1. Love is enough, 2. To Sylvia, 3. Autumn song, 4. Come away, death, 5. A love song
17 6 Choral folk songs: 1. I sowed the seeds of love, 2. There was a tree, 3. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, 4. The song of the blacksmith, 5. I love my love, 6. Swansea town
18 6 Choruses: 1. Intercession, 2. Good Friday, 3. Drinking song, 4. A love song, 5. How mighty are the Sabbaths
19 6 Songs: 1. Calm is the morn, 2. My true love hath my heart, 3. Weep you no more, 4. Lovely kind and kindly loving, 5. Cradle song, 6. Peace
20 6 Songs: 1. Invocation to the dawn, 2. Fain would I change that note, 3. The sergeant's son, 4. In a wood, 5. Between us now, 6. I will not let thee go

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