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Imogen Clare Holst was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and festival administrator. The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she is particularly known for her educational work at Dartington Hall in the 1940s, and for her 20 years as joint artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival.
Oct 28, 1972 · Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor and musicologist Imogen Holst. Favourite track: Rondo by Henry Purcell. Book: Reverend Francis Kilvert, Diary 1870-1879 by Rev Francis Kilvert. Luxury: Spy-glass.
390 Imogen Holst: A Life in Music August 1918 Sonata in D minor, op. 1 for violin, viola, cello and piano One movement only Manuscript non-autograph; two fair copies, both in the hand of Mabel Rodwell Jones: (a) 4pp, (b) 6pp; HF Notes Composed at Thaxted. Mabel Rodwell Jones was an ex-pupil of GH, and was on the staff of James Allen’s
Oct 22, 2021 · Composer, conductor, educator and dancer: Imogen Holst lived a completely musical life. She is mainly associated with the achievements of male composers - he...
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Nov 1, 2018 · Imogen Holst (1907-1984) was the daughter of composer Gustav Holst, best-known for The Planets. Holst, herself a composer, is perhaps best-known today as Britten’s musical assistant, but she also had an exceptional, wide-ranging but lesser known career as, amongst other things, educator, conductor and music traveller for CEMA, the Council for ...
Imogen Holst was born in Richmond, Surrey, in 1907 and educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School, where her father, Gustav Holst, was director of music. She worked with Herbert Howells before entering the Royal College of Music in 1926 to study composition with George Dyson and Gordon Jacob, harmony and counterpoint with Ralph Vaughan Williams, and conducting with William H. Reed.
Imogen Holst was born in Richmond, Surrey, in 1907 and educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School, where her father, Gustav Holst, was director of music. She worked with Herbert Howells before entering the Royal College of Music in 1926 to study composition with George Dyson and Gordon Jacob, harmony and counterpoint with Ralph Vaughan Williams, and conducting with William H. Reed.
