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Gustavus Theodore von Holst [1]​ fue un compositor de música clásica británico, con raíces familiares en Letonia , Suecia y Alemania. Gustavus se quitó el Von de su nombre durante la Primera Guerra Mundial por miedo de ser identificado como alemán. Discípulo de Charles Villiers Stanford en el Colegio Real de Música londinense, llegó a ser, como su maestro, un apasionado folclorista. Es mayormente conocido por su obra Los planetas.

Fue hermano del actor Ernest Cossart. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. septiembre 1874 – 25. mayo 1934
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Gustav Holst: Frases en inglés

“The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails.”

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Quoted in Michael Short, Gustav Holst 1874-1934: A Centenary Documentation

“Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.”

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Cited in Imogen Holst The Music of Gustav Holst (1951) p. 73 as "His favourite piece of advice".

“If nobody likes your work, you have to go on just for the sake of the work. And you're in no danger of letting the public make you repeat yourself. Every artist ought to pray that he may not be "a success". If he's a failure he stands a good chance of concentrating upon the best work of which he's capable.”

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Remark to Clifford Bax, reported in Imogen Holst Gustav Holst: A Biography (1969) p. 81.

“Always ask for advice but never take it.”

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Paul Holmes Holst (1997) p. 106.
Holst's maxim according to Vaughan Williams.

“Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.”

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Letter to W G Whittaker, 1914, quoted in Paul Holmes Holst p. 62.

“One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.”

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Letter to W G Whittaker, 1914, quoted in Paul Holmes Holst p. 62.