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Imogen Holst
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From a young age, Holst showed precocious talent in composing and performance. After attending Eothen School and St Paul's Girls' School, she entered the Royal College of Music, where she developed her skills as a conductor and won several prizes for composing. Unable to follow her initial ambitions to be a pianist or a dancer for health reasons, Holst spent most of the 1930s teaching, and as a full-time organiser for the English Folk Dance and Song Society. These duties reduced her compositional activities, although she made many arrangements of folksongs. After serving as an organiser for the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts at the start of the Second World War, in 1942 she began working at Dartington. In her nine years there she established Dartington as a major centre of music education and activity.
In the early 1950s Holst became Benjamin Britten's musical assistant, moved to Aldeburgh, and began helping with the organisation of the annual Aldeburgh Festival. In 1956 she became joint artistic director of the festival, and during the following 20 years helped it to a position of pre-eminence in British musical life. In 1964 she gave up her work as Britten's assistant to resume her own compositional career and to concentrate on the preservation of her father's musical legacy. Her own music is not widely known and has received little critical attention; much of it is unpublished and unperformed. The first recordings dedicated to her works, issued in 2009 and 2012, were warmly received by critics. She was appointed CBE in 1975 and received numerous academic honours. She died at Aldeburgh and is buried in the churchyard there. Provided by Wikipedia
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The wonderful world of music by Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, Holst, Imogen, 1907-1984
Published: Garden City Books, 1958Description: 68 pages : illustrations, portraits, music ; 33 cm.Call Number: Loading…
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The planets : suite for large orchestra, opus 32 New ed. / by Holst, Gustav, 1874-1934
Published: Boosey & Hawkes, 1983Other Authors: “…Holst, Imogen, 1907-1984…”Description: 1 study score (187 pages) ; 26 cm.
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The turn of the screw : op. 54 : an opera in a prologue and two acts by Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976
Published: Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, 2008Other Authors:Description: 1 vocal score (vi, 197 pages) ; 31 cm.Call Number: Loading…
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Noye's fludde : the Chester miracle play, op. 59, set to music by Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976
Published: Hawkes : Sole selling agents, Boosey & Hawkes, 1959Other Authors: “…Holst, Imogen, 1907-1984…”Description: 1 vocal score (viii unnumbered pages, 76 pages) ; 31 cm.
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War requiem, op. 66 : words from the "Missa pro defunctis" and the poems of Wilfred Owen by Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976
Published: Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, 1963Other Authors:Description: 6 unnumbered pages, 179 pages ; 31 cm.Call Number: Loading…
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A midsummer night's dream : opera in three acts, op. 64 = Ein Sommernachtstraum by Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976
Published: Hawkes : Sole selling agent, Boosey & Hawkes, 1960Other Authors:Description: 1 vocal score (314 pages) ; 31 cm.Call Number: Loading…
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