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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 2,290,259 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia. Gustav Holst is the 156th most popular composer (up from 161st in 2019), the 472nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 475th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Composer.

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

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Gustav Holst ranks 156 out of 1,216Before him are George Enescu, Enrique Granados, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Édouard Lalo, Ottorino Respighi, and Vincenzo Galilei. After him are Giovanni Paisiello, Marin Marais, Vittorio Monti, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Francesco Cavalli, and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Gustav Holst ranks 27Before him are Ernest Shackleton, Nikolai Berdyaev, Talaat Pasha, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Nicholas Roerich, and August Krogh. After him are Konstantin Päts, Karl Kraus, Antanas Smetona, Inessa Armand, Reinhold Glière, and Vsevolod Meyerhold. Among people deceased in 1934, Gustav Holst ranks 18Before him are Nestor Makhno, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Gregor Strasser, Engelbert Dollfuss, and Tōgō Heihachirō. After him are Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Edmond James de Rothschild, Alice Liddell, Louis Barthou, Augusto César Sandino, and Marinus van der Lubbe.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gustav Holst ranks 472 out of 7,765Before him are John Hicks (1904), Samuel Butler (1835), Samuel Johnson (1709), William Laud (1573), William Adams (1564), and Gregory Bateson (1904). After him are John Donne (1572), William Godwin (1756), Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473), Edmund Ironside (993), John Cleese (1939), and Peter Brook (1925).

Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Gustav Holst ranks 4Before him are Edward Elgar (1857), Henry Purcell (1659), and Benjamin Britten (1913). After him are John Barry (1933), William Byrd (1543), Thomas Tallis (1502), Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872), Keith Emerson (1944), Eugen d'Albert (1864), and John Dunstaple (1390).