Imogen Holst
Imogen Claire Holst (born April 12, 1907 in Richmond upon Thames ( Surrey ), † March 9, 1984 in Aldeburgh , Suffolk ) was an English composer , conductor and music writer.
Life
Holst - daughter of the composer Gustav Holst and his wife Isobel Harrison - attended St Paul's Girls School in Hammersmith and studied at the Royal College of Music in London . During the Second World War , she worked from 1941 to 1944 as an organizer at the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts and from 1943 to 1951 as musical director at the Arts Center at Dartington Hall School .
In 1952 Holst went to Aldeburgh to work with Benjamin Britten and in 1956 became artistic director of the festival there . In 1953 she founded the Purcell Singers , whose conductor she was until 1967. Of her writings, the biography of her father was especially known. Other books by her deal with medieval , folk , renaissance and baroque music . In addition to her father, she wrote biographies on William Byrd , Henry Purcell , Johann Sebastian Bach and Benjamin Britten.
As a composer, Imogen Holst left an extensive body of work that spans instrumental, vocal and orchestral genres. She worked just as versatile as an arranger.
Publications
- Imogen Holst: The ABC of Music. Basic concepts, harmony, forms, instruments. With a foreword by Benjamin Britten, English original edition 1963, translated by Meinhard Saremba. 7th edition. Reclam non-fiction book, ISBN 978-3-15-018681-7 .
(The following list is taken from the English Wikipedia)
- Gustav Holst: A biography . Oxford University Press, London 1938, OCLC 852118145 . (New edition 1969).
- The Music of Gustav Holst . Oxford University Press, London 1951, OCLC 881989 . (Revised editions 1968 and 1985, the latter with the addition ofHolst's Music Reconsidered).
- The Book of the Dolmetsch Descant Recorder . Boosey & Hawkes, London 1957, OCLC 221221906 .
- The Story of Music ("The Wonderful World" series) . Rathbone, London, OCLC 2182017 . (Co-author Benjamin Britten).
- Heirs and Rebels: Letters Written to Each Other, and Occasional Writings on Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst . Oxford University Press, London 1959, OCLC 337514 . (Co-author Ursula Vaughan Williams).
- Henry Purcell, 1659-1695: Essays on his Music . Oxford University Press, London 1959, OCLC 602569 . (Ed.).
- Henry Purcell: The Story of his Life and Work . Boosey & Hawkes, London 1961, OCLC 1200203 .
- Tune . Faber & Faber, London 1962, OCLC 843455729 . .
- An ABC of Music: a Short Practical Guide to the Basic Essentials of Rudiments, Harmony, and Form . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1963, ISBN 0-19-317103-1 .
- Your Book of Music . Faber & Faber, London 1964, OCLC 170598 .
- Bach ("Great Composers" series) . Faber & Faber, London 1965, OCLC 748710834 .
- Britten ("Great Composers" series) . Faber & Faber, London 1966, OCLC 243904447 .
- Byrd ("Great Composers" series) . Faber & Faber, London 1972, ISBN 0-571-09813-4 .
- Conducting a Choir: a Guide for Amateurs . Oxford University Press, London 1973, ISBN 0-19-313407-1 .
- Holst ("Great Composers" series) . Faber & Faber, London 1974, ISBN 0-571-09967-X . (New edition 1981)
- A Thematic Catalog of Gustav Holst's Music . Faber Music, in conjunction with G & I Holst Ltd, London 1974, ISBN 0-571-10004-X .
Imogen Holst also wrote numerous articles, pamphlets , essays, introductions, and program introductions between 1935 and 1984 .
List of works
(S = soprano; A = alto; T = tenor; B = bass)
1. Original compositions
genre | year | title | Forces (instrumental and vocal) |
Remarks |
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Chamber music | 1918 | Sonata in D minor | Violin, viola, cello and piano | Opus 1 (only the first four works are numbered) |
Unaccompanied tune | 1918 | Four English Christmas Carols | Opus 2 | |
Instrumental | 1918 | Duet | Viola and piano | Opus 3 |
Instrumental | 1920 | The Masque of the Tempest | Flute, clarinet, triangle and strings | Opus 4 |
Chorale | 1921 | Arrangement: "Resonet in Laudibus" | Voices in unison and a small orchestra | |
Chorale | 1925 | To Essex Rhapsody | mixed choir and orchestra | |
Vocal | 1925 | Three songs (words: Walter de la Mare ) | mixed voices, two violins and cello | |
Vocal | 1926 | Two four-part rounds | Unaccompanied voices | |
Vocal | 1926 | "Weathers" (song) (Text: Thomas Hardy ) | Voice solo and piano | |
Instrumental | 1926 | Theme and variations | piano | |
Chorale | 1927 | Mass in A minor | Choir SSATB | |
Instrumental | 1927 | Suite in F: "Allegro assai" | Strings | |
Orchestral | 1927 | Suite: "Moderato" | Small orchestra | |
chamber music | 1928 | Quintet | Oboe and strings | |
Instrumental | 1928 | Sonata in G | Violin and piano | |
Chamber music | 1928 | Fantasy | String quartet | |
Chamber music | 1928 | suite | Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon | |
Orchestral | 1929 | Overture: Persephone | orchestra | |
Orchestral | 1929 | Suite: The Unfortunate Traveler | Brass band | |
Instrumental | 1930 | Suite: The Unfortunate Traveler | Strings | Arrangement of a suite for a brass band (1929) |
Chorale | 1930 | "What Man is He" | Chorus SATB and Orchestra | Text from Wisdom IX: 13-17 |
Ballet | 1930 | Meddling in Magic | orchestra | |
Instrumental | 1930 | suite | Viola alone | |
Chamber music | 1930 | Sonata | Violin and cello | |
Orchestral | 1932 | Morris Suite | Small orchestra | |
Instrumental | 1934 | Five short airs on a ground | Whistle | |
Instrumental | 1934 | Five short pieces | piano | |
Instrumental | 1934 | Six Pictures from Finland | Solo piano | |
Chorale | 1934 | Wedding Hymn: "Father in Thine Almighty Hand" (words: Eleanor Spensley) | Voices SATB | |
Orchestral | 1934 | Incidental music: The Song of Solomon | orchestra | Music for a Hollywood pageant |
Concertante | 1935 | Concerto for violin and string orchestra | Solo violin and strings | Based on traditional Irish melodies |
Instrumental | 1935 | Four easy pieces | Viola and piano | |
Orchestral | 1935 | On Westhall Hill | Small orchestra | |
Chorale | 1935 | Carol: "My Bairn, Sleep Softly Now" (Anon.) | Women's voices (SSSAA) a cappella or soprano and flutes | |
Instrumental | 1936 | Canons | Mixed flutes | |
Vocal | 1936 | "Fly Away Over the Sea" (words: Christina Rossetti ) | Two sopranos and piano | |
Vocal | 1936 | Canon: "Great Art Thou, O Lord" | Five equal voices a cappella | |
Vocal | 1936 | "Lady Daffadowndilly" (words: Christina Rossetti) | mixed voices and piano | |
Chorale | 1936 | "Now Will I Weave White Violets" (Words: Meleager of Gadara ) | Women's Voices (SSA) | |
Chorale | 1937 | Incidental music: Nicodemus | Choir and orchestra | |
Instrumental | 1937 | 12 Songs for Children (piano accompaniments) | piano | |
Vocal | 1937 | "Little Thinkest Thou, Poore Flower" (words: John Donne ) | Voice and piano | |
Instrumental | 1939 | "Prelude and Dance" | piano | |
Orchestral | 1939 | Eothen Suite | Small orchestra | |
Chorale | 1940 | "The Cherry Tree Carol" | SATB a cappella | |
Instrumental | 1940 | Six Shakespeare songs | Recorder Trio | |
Chorale | 1940 | "A Hymne to Christ" (words: John Donne) | SATB a cappella choir | |
Chamber | 1941 | Offley suite | Recorder Trio | |
Instrumental | 1941 | Deddington Suite | Recorder Trio | |
Chamber music | 1942 | serenade | Flute, viola and bassoon | |
Instrumental | 1943 | suite | String orchestra | |
Chorale | 1943 | Three Psalms | SSAATB choir and strings | |
Instrumental | 1943 | Theme and variations | Solo violin | |
Concertante | 1944 | Oboe concerto | Oboe and orchestra | |
Chamber music | 1944 | First string trio | Violin, viola, cello | |
Chorale | 1944 | Five songs (words: Anon., Robert Herrick , John Donne) | Voices SSSAA | |
Vocal | 1944 | Four Songs (words: Tottel's Miscellany ) | Soprano and piano | |
Chorale | 1945 | Hierusalem (words: Tottel's Miscellany ) | Eight-part female choir | |
Opera | 1945 | Young Beichan (libretto: Beryl de Zoete ) | Soloists, choir and orchestra | Marionette opera in seven scenes |
Instrumental | 1945 | Offley suite | Strings | Arrangement for piano beginners and beginner string classes |
Instrumental | 1946 | Duet for treble recorders | Duet for mixed recorders | |
Instrumental | 1946 | Six Canons | Violins | Exercises for violin |
Chorale | 1946 | Anthem: "How Manifold are thy Works" | Choir, unspecified | |
Chorale | 1946 | Four Canons for Winsome | Female voices | For Winsome Bartlett, IH colleague in Dartington |
Chamber music | 1946 | String Quartet No. 1 | String Quartet No. 1 | |
Chorale | 1947 | Birthday Canon for Winsome: "Open me the gates of righteousness" | Voices SATB | |
Chorale | 1947 | Birthday Part-Song for Winsome: "The lopped tree in time may grow again" | Votes SSAA | |
Vocal | 1948 | Round: "I stand as still as any stone" | Four voices (unspecified) | |
Chamber | 1949 | String quartet No. 2 | String Quartet No. 2 | |
Vocal | 1950 | Incidental music, Prometheus (words: Aeschylus ) | Parts (unspecified) and viola | |
Chorale | 1950 | Six part songs: Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow | Parts SSA and harp (or piano) | |
Opera | 1951 | Benedick and Beatrice | Soloists, choir and orchestra | Opera in one act, based on characters (characters) from Shakespeare |
Chorale | 1955 | Motet: "Lavabo inter innocentes" | Voices SSSAA | |
Instrumental | 1962 | The Fall of the Leaf : three short studies on a 16th-century tune | Cello alone | |
Chorale | 1962 | "The Twelve Kindly Months" (words: Thomas Tusser ) | Voices SSA | |
Instrumental | 1962 | Variations on "Loth to Depart" | String quartet and two string orchestras | |
Instrumental | 1962 | String Trio No. 2 | Violin, viola and cello | |
Chorale | 1964 | "As Laurel Leaves That Cease Not to Be Green" (from Tottel's Miscellany) | Voices SSA | |
Chorale | 1964 | "That Lord that Lay in Aces Stall" | Voices SATB | |
Chorale | 1965 | Carol: "Make Ye Merry For Him That Is To Come" | Voices SSATB | |
Chorale | 1965 | "Not Unto Us O Lord" | Two mixed and high choirs (correct translation?), Organ, optional tubular bells | |
Chorale | 1965 | Cantata: The Sun's Journey | Soprano and alto choirs, small orchestra (or piano) | |
Orchestral | 1965 | Triannon Suite | orchestra | |
Instrumental | 1966 | Fanfare for the Grenadier Guards | Three trumpets, horn, two trombones | |
Instrumental | 1966 | Fanfare for Thaxted | Two trumpets, flute, bells | |
Instrumental | 1967 | Leiston Suite | Wind quartet | |
Instrumental | 1968 | duo | Viola and piano | |
Chorale | 1968 | "Out of Your Sleep and Wake" | SSATTB choir a cappella | |
Instrumental | 1969 | Badingham Chime | Handbells | |
Orchestral | 1969 | Theme and seven variations: The Glory of the West | Brass band | |
Orchestral | 1969 | Woodbridge Suite | orchestra | |
Instrumental | 1970 | Fantasia on Hampshire Folk Tunes | String orchestra | |
Instrumental | 1972 | Iken fanfare | School marching band | |
Chorale | 1972 | "Hello My Fancy, Whither Wilt Thou Go" (words: William Cleland ) | SSTBB and countertenor | |
Vocal | 1974 | "Farewell to Rod" | Solo voice and continuo | |
Concertante | 1976 | Joyce's Divertimento | Viola and orchestra | |
Orchestral | 1977 | Deben Calendar | orchestra | |
Instrumental | 1980 | February Welcome | Handbells | |
Vocal | 1980 | A greeting | Two sopranos, mezzo-soprano and piano | |
Vocal | 1982 | "Song for a Well-Loved Librarian" | Soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone | Dedicated to Fred Ferry, librarian to the Britten-Pears Library baritone |
Chamber | 1982 | String quintet | String quintet: two violins, viola, two cellos | |
Vocal | 1984 | Homage to William Morris | Bass voice and string bass | |
Instrumental | 1984 | Recorder sextets | Sopranino, two treble, two mixed and tenor recorders | |
Instrumental | 1984 | Concerto for recorder and string orchestra | ||
Instrumental | 1984 | duet | Violin and cello |
2. Arrangements
genre | year | title | Forces (instrumental and vocal) |
Remarks |
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Instrumental | 1932 | First Book of Tunes for the Pipes | Pipes | Collected and arranged |
Instrumental | 1933 | Selected 18th Century Dances | piano | Collected and arranged |
Instrumental | 1933 | Second Book of Tunes for the Pipes | Pipes | Collected and arranged |
Instrumental | 1933 | Two Scottish Airs | Cello and piano | |
Vocal | 1934 | Four Oxfordshire Folk Songs | Two sopranos and piano | |
Vocal | 1934 | Four Somerset Folk Songs | Two sopranos and alto | |
Orchestral | 1934 | Love in a Mist or The Blue-Haired Stranger | Orchestra | Arranged after a piece by Scarlatti |
Chorale | 1934 | Folk song: "Nowell and Nowell" | Mixed voices | |
Vocal | 1934 | Six Scottish Folk Songs | Voice, pipes piano | |
Orchestral | 1934 | Traditional Country Dances | Orchestra | Arranged for the Cecil Sharp House Orchestra and others |
Instrumental | 1935 | Four Folk Tunes from Hampshire | Unison violins and piano | |
Orchestral | 1935 | “Intermezzo” from Gustav Holst 's First Suite in E flat | Orchestra | Orchestral arrangement |
Chorale | 1935 | Folk song: "The Virgin Unspotted" | Unaccompanied female voices (SSA) | |
Instrumental | 1936 | Twelve Old English Dance Airs | Pipes | Arrangements, from Playford's English Dancing Master |
Chorale | 1936 | "Wassail Song" | Unaccompanied men's chorus | Arranged after Gustav Holst's version for mixed choir |
Instrumental | 1937 | Six Old English Dances | piano | Arrangements, from Playford's English Dancing Master |
Chorale | 1937 | Folk song: "A Sweet Country Life" | Unaccompanied SATB voices | |
Chorale | 1937 | Folk song from Hampshire: "The Cobbler" | Unaccompanied SATB voices | |
Chorale | 1937 | "A Cornish Wassail Song" | Unaccompanied SATB voices | |
Orchestral | 1937 | Coronation Country Dances | Brass band | together with Gordon Jacob |
Instrumental | 1937 | The Rival Sisters | Strings, ad lib woodwind and percussion | Arrangement of Purcell's Suite for small orchestra |
Vocal | 1938 | Pelham Humphrey : Three Songs (Pelham Humphrey) | Voice and piano | |
Vocal | 1938 | Ten Appalachian Folk Songs | Voice and piano | |
Chorale | 1940 | Six Traditional Carols (first set) | SSA voices | Completed between 1940 and 1946 |
Vocal | 1940 | Pastoral scene: Nymphs and Shepherds | SSA voices, strings, optional recorders | Based on music by Purcell |
Chorale | 1940 | Dorset folk carol: "Come All You Worthy People" | SSA voices | |
Instrumental | 1940 | Pelham Humphrey: Five airs | Recorder trio | |
Vocal | 1941 | Pelham Humphrey: Song "Nature's Homily" | Baritones and piano | |
Instrumental | 1942 | Handel 's "As When the Dove" | Continuo | |
Instrumental | 1942 | A Bach Book for the Treble Recorder | Treble recorder | Selected and edited by Holst |
Vocal | 1942 | Three Carols from Other Lands | Unspecified | |
Chorale | 1943 | "Of a Rosemary Branch Sent" | SATB voices with strings | |
Chorale | 1943 | Shropshire folk carol: "All Under the Leaves" | SSA voices | Also known as "The Seven Virgins" |
Chorale | 1943 | Cornish folk-carol: "Cherry, Holly and Ivy" | SATB voices | |
Chorale | 1945 | Bach 's Cantata No. 79: "God the Lord is Son and Shield" | SSA voices | |
Instrumental | 1945 | Purcell 's The Tempest | Piano, flute, descant recorder, oboe, clarinet, strings | |
Orchestral | 1945 | Three Somerset Folk Songs | Small orchestra | |
Instrumental | 1947 | British Folk Songs | Solo piano | |
Chorale | 1948 | Six Traditional Carols (Second set) | SSA voices | |
Chorale | 1949 | Gustav Holst: "Lullay my Liking" | SSA voices with solo soprano | |
Chorale | 1949 | Six Christmas Carols (Third set) | SSA and SSAA voices | |
Instrumental | 1950 | Purcell: Four songs | Recorder ensemble | |
Chorale | 1950 | "Greensleeves" | SSA voices | |
Instrumental | 1950 | Purcell: Seventeen songs | Piano, two violins, cello ad lib | |
Chorale | 1950 | Folk song: "I Must Live All Alone" | SSA voices | |
Instrumental | 1951 | Ten Indian Folk Tunes from the Punjab | Descant recorder | Transcribed by Holst and Prabhakar Chinchore |
Chorale | 1952 | Trade: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato | Equal voices with ad lib soprano and alto soli | |
Instrumental | 1952 | "Sellenger's Round" | Strings | Arrangement of a movement by Byrd |
Vocal | 1953 | Daniel Purcell : "By What I've Seen I am Undone" | Voice and piano | |
Vocal | 1953 | Henry Carey : Four Songs | Voice and piano | |
Orchestral | 1954 | Britten : "March from the Courtly Dances sequence in Gloriana " | Orchestra | Orchestral arrangement |
Vocal | 1954 | Britten: Second Lute Song of Earl of Essex, from Gloriana | Voice and piano | |
Chorale | 1955 | Britten: Choral Dances from Gloriana | Tenor solo and SATB chorus | |
Instrumental | 1955 | Bach: A Christmas Canon | Recorder quartet | |
Vocal | 1955 | Handel: "For Ever Blessed Be Thy Holy Name" | Voice and piano | |
Chorale | 1955 | Folk song: "O Can Ye Sew Cushions" | SSA voices and piano | From Britten's Folk Song arrangements Vol. 1 |
Chorale | 1955 | Six Scottish Songs | SSA voices unaccompanied | |
Chorale | 1955 | Traditional Songs of Scotland | SSA voices unaccompanied | |
Vocal | 1955 | Arne : "Under the Greenwood Tree" | Voice and piano | |
Vocal | 1956 | Sea shanty: "Sally Brown" | Voices and recorders | |
Opera | 1956 | Venus and Adonis | Unspecified | Original by John Blow , arranged for the Aldeburgh Festival |
Chorale | 1957 | "Singing for Pleasure" | Female voices | Collection of songs |
Chorale | 1958 | Six Traditional Carols (Fourth Set) | Unaccompanied SSA and SSSA voices | |
Chorale | 1959 | "A Jubilee Book of English Folk Songs" | Unison voices and piano | Collection of songs |
Chorale | 1959 | Ten songs from John Wilson 's Cheerfull Ayres and Ballads (1659) | SSA voices | |
Instrumental | 1960 | Fifty Bach tunes | recorder | Arranged from the originals |
Instrumental | 1960 | Ten Bach tunes | recorder | Arranged from the originals |
Chorale | 1960 | A Yacre of Land: 16 folksongs from collection of Ralph Vaughan Williams | Unison voices and piano, or unaccompanied voices | Together with Ursula Vaughan Williams |
Vocal | 1961 | Nineteen Songs from Folk Songs of Europe , ed. Maud Karpeles | Voice and piano accompaniment | |
Chorale | 1961 | Tunes from Kentucky | Equal voices and junior orchestra | |
Chorale | 1962 | Heinrich Schütz : The Passion According to St John | Soloists and unaccompanied chorus | Together with Peter Pears |
Chorale | 1964 | Scottish Traditional Song: "A Wee Bird Cam 'to Our Ha'Door" | SATB voices | |
Chorale | 1965 | The Passion According to St Luke | Unaccompanied voices | Set up for performance based on manuscripts from the 15th century |
Chorale | 1965 | Heinrich Schütz: The Passion According to St Matthew | Soloists and unaccompanied chorus | Together with Peter Pears |
Vocal | 1966 | Thomas Tudway: "I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes" | Soprano and continuo | |
Chorale | 1966 | George Kirbye : "O Jesus, Look" | SSATB voices | |
Opera | 1967 | Purcell: The Faerie Queen (shortened version) | Soloists, chorus and orchestra | Arranged for the performance by Holst, Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten |
Chorale | 1967 | Bach: The Passion According to St John | Soloists, chorus and orchestra | Edited by Benjamin Britten and Holst; English translation by Peter Pears |
Orchestral | 1967 | Lully : Suite from Persée | Orchestra | Edited by Holst and Emanuel Hurwitz |
Vocal | 1967 | Three carol arrangements | Three equal unaccompanied voices | |
Vocal | 1967 | Twenty Traditional British Folk Songs | unaccompanied voices in part song | |
Chorale | 1968 | Purcell: Wedding anthem, "How Blest Are They" | Mixed voices, soprano and bass soli | Together with Philip Ledger |
Chorale | 1969 | Purcell: "Remember Not, O Lord" | Male chorus | |
Instrumental | 1970 | William Byrd : "Browning" | Violin, two violas, two cellos | |
Chorale | 1970 | English folk song: "Gypsy Davy" | Unaccompanied chorus | Edited as a ballad |
Vocal | 1978 | Pelham Humphrey and John Blow: "A Dialogue Between Two Penitents" | Two tenors and continuo | |
Instrumental | 1981 | Seventeenth-century traditional English dance: "About Ship" | Piano duet | |
Instrumental | 1983 | Seven tunes by Gustav Holst | piano | Arranged as a simple piano edition |
3. Recordings
- CD: Mass in A minor etc , Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, The Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross, 2013, harmonia mundi HMH 907576.
- CD: String Quartet No. 1, together with quartets by B. Britten a. a., 1993.
- “Phantasy” quartet, BBC Proms performance August 19, 2013.
Web links
- Works by and about Imogen Holst in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ For a list of selected articles and programs, see Christopher Grogan's bibliography: Imogen Holst: A Life in Music . The Boydell Press, Woodbridge Suffolk 2010, ISBN 978-1-84383-599-8 , pp. 464-465.
- ↑ Christopher Grogan: Imogen Holst: A Life in Music . The Boydell Press, Woodbridge Suffolk 2010, ISBN 978-1-84383-599-8 , p. 141
- ↑ Christopher Grogan: Imogen Holst: A Life in Music . The Boydell Press, Woodbridge Suffolk 2010, ISBN 978-1-84383-599-8 , p. 142
- ↑ Christopher Grogan: Imogen Holst: A Life in Music . The Boydell Press, Woodbridge Suffolk 2010, ISBN 978-1-84383-599-8 , p. 425
- ↑ Christopher Grogan: Imogen Holst: A Life in Music . The Boydell Press, Woodbridge Suffolk 2010, ISBN 978-1-84383-599-8 , pp. 345-346
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Holst, Imogen |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Holst, Imogen Claire |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English music writer, composer and conductor |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1907 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Richmond (Thames) , Surrey |
DATE OF DEATH | March 9, 1984 |
Place of death | Aldeburgh |