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Background: In his booklet note, the composer Colin Matthews examines the origins of The Planets, which many people erroneously assume to be Holst's only work. In fact, when he began to think about composing The Planets, Holst was nearly 40 and 'had already achieved recognition as a composer, even if he had not yet found a truly individual voice.' In the early years of the 20th century, Cecil Sharp, Percy Grainger, Ralph Vaughan Williams and others began collecting folk songs to preserve a disappearing tradition. Gustav Holst was not part of this folk music revival but was influenced by his friends and made some arrangements of his own, amongst them A Somerset Rhapsody. Written in 1906 at the request of Cecil Sharp to whom it is dedicated, it is based on folk-songs collected by Sharp in Somerset. Although The Planets is far from Holst's only work, it is very different from anything else he composed and has few antecedents in Holst's own output or in orchestral music generally. There are few precedents for a seven-movement orchestral work on such a scale. Colin Matthews is often asked why Holst did not write a Pluto movement himself, although the planet was discovered several years before his death in 1934. There is no evidence that he ever considered adding an extra movement. The last notes of Neptune - The Mystic fade away to nothingness. Why should anyone want to bring it back to life? In 1999, Colin Matthews was asked to add a movement to The Planets. |
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COMPOSER: Gustav Holst (other
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