Gustav Holst was a leading figure in the new age of English music
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His most celebrated
work, The Planets, is an orchestral tour de force, but he wrote
music of startling originality in many forms, drawing inspiration
from sources as varied as English folksong, oriental melody, the
Apocrypha and Sanskrit literature, as well as from writers such as
Keats, Hardy, Bridges and Whitman. This biography, by his daughter
Imogen, was first published by Faber in 1938 and revised in 1969.
In it she quotes at length from his many letters to his friends -
especially to his closest colleague Vaughan Williams - and draws on
her personal memories of Holst's later years. Holst struggled all
his life against bouts of ill-health and depression, but his
remarkable and good-humoured resilience enabled him to compose
great music in often difficult circumstances. He was essentially a
very private person, and the huge popular success of The Planets in
1919 disconcerted him. Imogen Holst describes the effect of this
sudden fame on her father, and records the late flowering of his
music in the final years of his life.
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