Holst's great-grandfather, Matthias von Holst, was of Nordic origin, and came to England in 1802 from Riga, Latvia.

Holst's mother, Clara Cox von Holst ( née Lediard ), who died in 1882, was a singer and pianist who bore two sons, Gustav and Emil Gottfried ( who later became Ernest Cossart, a film actor in Hollywood ).

Vaughan Williams's own music was in general quite different from Holst ’ s, but he praised Holst's work abundantly and the two men developed a shared interest in exploring and maintaining the English vocal and choral tradition as found primarily in folk song, madrigals and church music.

The orchestral premiere of The Planets suite, conducted at Holst's request by Adrian Boult, was held at short notice on 29 September 1918, during the last weeks of World War I, in the Queen's Hall with the financial support of Holst's friend and fellow composer H. Balfour Gardiner It was hastily rehearsed ; the musicians of the Queen's Hall Orchestra first saw the complicated music only two hours before the performance, and the choir for " Neptune " was recruited from pupils from St Paul's Girls ' School ( where Holst taught ).

Dedicated to the late Imogen Holst, Gustav Holst's daughter, it was first performed in Manchester on 11 May 2000, with Kent Nagano conducting the Hallé Orchestra.

Holst's daughter Imogen, recorded that " At the time when he was asked to set these words to music, Holst was so over-worked and over-weary that he felt relieved to discover they ' fitted ' the tune from Jupiter ".

According to one of Holst's friends, the same apartment building where he was found dead also housed a MI6 apartment, implying that Holst was trying to reach one of his contacts.

This was intended as both a tribute to the memory of Holst and a commemoration of his birth, and the intention in performance terms was as a work to be played in the same programme as Holst's " Planets " suite-the orchestration is the same, except that no vocal forces are used.

The music was cheap and repetitive and not to Holst's liking, and he referred to this kind of work as " worming " ( a pun on Wurm's name, which means " worm " in German ) and regarded it as " criminal ".

Holst's view was that Noel's philosophy was a " gospel of comic hate ", but he ceased to hold the music festival at Thaxted after three seasons, moving it to Dulwich.

Holst's ' retirement ' was immediately productive, with the First Choral Symphony to words by Keats ( a Second Choral Symphony to words by George Meredith exists only in fragments ).

The premiere was at the Queen's Hall on 29 September 1918, conducted by Holst's friend Adrian Boult before an invited audience of about 250 people.

Holst's use of orchestration was very imaginative and colourful, showing the influence of Arnold Schoenberg and other continental composers of the day rather than his English predecessors.

Holst's original title ( clearly seen on the handwritten full score ) was " Seven Pieces for Large Orchestra ".

Although commonplace today, the effect bewitched audiences in the era before widespread recorded sound — after the initial 1918 run-through, Holst's daughter Imogen ( in addition to watching the charwomen dancing in the aisles during " Jupiter ") remarked that the ending was " unforgettable, with its hidden chorus of women's voices growing fainter and fainter ... until the imagination knew no difference between sound and silence ".

Pluto was discovered in 1930, four years before Holst's death, and was hailed by astronomers as the ninth planet.

* Piano duet ( four hands ) – An engraved copy of Holst's own piano duet arrangement was found by John York.

Dave Edmunds ' band Love Sculpture included the Mars movement on their 1970 album " Forms and Feelings ," though this was only included in the U. S. version of the album due to Holst's family preventing worldwide release of the track.

Permission to use pieces was sometimes denied by the composer's family or estate, as for instance with Gustav Holst's Mars, the Bringer of War.

Meyer's original plan for the score was to adapt Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets.

) As late as 1951 at the Leith Hill Festival, singers from the Anglican tradition objected to the words of Holst's partsong, which mention dance and religion together.

Also, from October 1969 to the song's last performance in May 1975 at the Earl's court shows, the violin solo and the solo section after would incorporate " Mars " from Gustav Holst's suite The Planets, accompanied by Plant's vocalisations.

Nixa also made original recordings in England at the Walthamstow Assembly Hall of Sir Adrian Boult conducting Holst's The Planets Suite, Vaughan Williams English Folksongs Suite, and others.

He made a famous recording of Holst's The Planets with the Boston Symphony for Deutsche Grammophon, after learning the piece at the age of 70.

The euphonium is featured in a few late Romantic and 20th century works, usually playing parts marked " tenor tuba ", including Gustav Holst's The Planets, and Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben.

This last concert is devoted to Gustav Holst's The Planets.

Holst's music is well known for unconventional use of metre and haunting melodies.

The house has been opened as a museum devoted to Holst's life and times since 1974, devoted partly to him and partly to illustrating local domestic life of the mid-19th century.

During the first two decades of the 20th century, musical society as a whole ( and Holst's friend Vaughan Williams in particular ) became interested in old English folksongs, madrigal singers, and Tudor composers.

Holst's compositions include works for wind band, and have become standards in the repertoire.

Controversy surrounded Holst's friendship with Noel, whose opinions grew progressively uncompromising, leading to his displaying the Red Flag and that of Sinn Fein in the church.

Although The Planets remains Holst's most popular work, the composer himself did not count it among his best creations and later in life complained that its popularity had completely surpassed his other works.

A typical performance of all seven movements lasts for about fifty minutes though Holst's own electric recording from 1926 lasted just over forty-two and a half minutes.

Consequently, Holst's original work is once again a complete representation of all of the extraterrestrial planets in the Solar System.

Founding father Adolph Zukor ( born in 1873 ) was still chairman emeritus ; he referred to chairman Barney Balaban ( born 1888 ) as " the boy.

His father, Adolph Schiele, was the station master of the Tulln station in the Austrian State Railways ; his mother Marie, née Soukupová, was a Czech from Český Krumlov ( Krumau ), in southern Bohemia.

Barn painter Adolph Petree ( Rhys Williams ), who had completed a job for Katie's father, offers her a ride, but robs her of her money.

Carlson's father, Olaf Adolph Carlson, had little formal education, but was described as " brilliant " by a relative.

His father, August Friedrich Hermann Macke ( 1845 – 1904 ), was a building contractor and his mother, Maria Florentine, née Adolph, ( 1848 – 1922 ), came from a farming family in Westphalia's Sauerland region.

Erwin passed the information to his father Adolph, who had a long-standing interest in lost mines and amateur exploration.

Born in Lübeck, his ancestors for three generations had been Protestant pastors ; his father Christian Adolph Overbeck ( 1755 – 1821 ) was doctor of law, poet, mystic pietist and burgomaster of Lübeck.

Joseph Adolph Rovan ( born Joseph Adolphe Rosenthal in Munich, Germany on July 25, 1918, died August 27, 2004 ), was a French philosopher and politician, and is considered a spiritual father of post-war Europe.

In 1880 Mary and her parents were living in the Castleton area of Staten Island, New York City and her father was working as a clerk, as was her brother, Adolph.

With an absent father and a mother who struggled with mental illness, Caouette eventually settled in the Houston area with his grandparents, Adolph and Rosemary Davis, who despite personality quirks provided a supportive family for him.

In 1830 the family moved to Berlin, and in 1832 Adolph was forced to take over the lithographic business on the death of his father.

He was a key founder of Paramount Pictures with Adolph Zukor, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky, Jr.

George Goldner was born February 9, 1918, in a Jewish household to a mother Rose originally from Poland and father Adolph from Austria.

When his friend Adolph Bargiel, father of Woldemar Bargiel, had an affair with her, she divorced Wieck in 1824.

Bargiel ’ s father Adolph was a well-known piano and voice teacher while his mother Mariane had been unhappily married to Clara ’ s father, Friedrich Wieck.