COMPOSER

Gustav Holst

1874 - 1934

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Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite The Planets, he composed many other works across a range of genres, although none achieved comparable success. His distinctive compositional style was the product of many influences, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss being most crucial early in his development. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustav Holst has received more than 2,463,493 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Gustav Holst is the 176th most popular composer (down from 156th in 2019), the 542nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 472nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Composer.

Gustav Holst is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets.

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  • 64.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Gustav Holst ranks 176 out of 1,451. Before him are Jan Dismas Zelenka, Henry Mancini, Hugo Wolf, Amilcare Ponchielli, Jordi Savall, and Dmitry Kabalevsky. After him are Francesca Caccini, Luciano Berio, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Francesco Cavalli, Giuseppe Torelli, and Philip Glass.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Gustav Holst ranks 32. Before him are Ernest Shackleton, Konstantin Päts, Nicholas Roerich, Reinhold Glière, Antanas Smetona, and Inessa Armand. After him are Luigi Einaudi, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Josef Suk, Abbas II of Egypt, Joseph Erlanger, and Henri Guisan. Among people deceased in 1934, Gustav Holst ranks 21. Before him are Gregor Strasser, Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Tōgō Heihachirō, John Dillinger, Edmond James de Rothschild, and Augusto César Sandino. After him are Marinus van der Lubbe, Louis Barthou, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Alice Liddell, Vlado Chernozemski, and Gustav Ritter von Kahr.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gustav Holst ranks 542 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry, Duke of Cornwall (1511), Donald Pleasence (1919), Graham Hill (1929), Oliver Sacks (1933), Gregory Bateson (1904), and Roger Glover (1945). After him are Stanley Rous (1895), Bruce Dickinson (1958), Thomas Bayes (1702), George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859), Betty Williams (1943), and David McCallum (1933).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Gustav Holst ranks 5. Before him are Edward Elgar (1857), Henry Purcell (1659), Benjamin Britten (1913), and John Barry (1933). After him are William Byrd (1543), Keith Emerson (1944), Eugen d'Albert (1864), Thomas Tallis (1502), Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948), John Dunstaple (1390), and Michael Nyman (1944).

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