'''Gustav Holst''' – born Gustavus Theodore von Holst - (1874-1934), [[English]] composer; known for the ''“The Planets"'' [[suite]]; was of [[Latvia]]n extraction – his great grandfather had arrived in [[Britain]] from [[Riga]] in the early 19th century. He studied with [[Charles Villiers Stanford]] at the Royal College of Music, became a close friend of [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] and like him became interested in the conservation of English [[Folk music|folk song]], and the choral tradition. (He was conducting village choirs in his teens.) He was a [[trombone|trombonist]] of professional standard. For the last 29 years of his life he taught at St. Paul’s Girls School in Hammersmith, [[London]]. | '''Gustav Holst''' – born Gustavus Theodore von Holst - (1874-1934), [[English]] composer; known for the ''“The Planets"'' [[suite]]; was of [[Latvia]]n extraction – his great grandfather had arrived in [[Britain]] from [[Riga]] in the early 19th century. He studied with [[Charles Villiers Stanford]] at the Royal College of Music, became a close friend of [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] and like him became interested in the conservation of English [[Folk music|folk song]], and the choral tradition. (He was conducting village choirs in his teens.) He was a [[trombone|trombonist]] of professional standard. For the last 29 years of his life he taught at St. Paul’s Girls School in Hammersmith, [[London]]. |