Showing posts with label Gustav Holst. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gustav Holst. Show all posts

Friday, April 29, 2016

Somerset and St. Paul's...

Despite having a name that would indicate otherwise, one of the great English composers of the early Twentieth Century was Gustav Holst.  Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on the 21st September, 1874, Holst was born to an English mother, and a Swedish father with Latvian and German ancestry.