3/15/2024 0 Comments First suite in e flat28, inscribed by Holst (‘ND from GH’), n.d. Annotated printed score, an organ arrangement for the ‘Chaconne’ movement from the First Suite in E-flat for Military Band, Op. Holst conducted the piece himself when it was first performed in Gloucester Cathedral in 1931. With the 1931 Three Choirs Festival in mind, Holst started work on the piece in 1930 the decision to set a selection of Robert Bridges’ verses from Ode to Music, composed for the Bicentenary Commemoration of Henry Purcell, took A Choral Fantasia in an unusual new direction. Described by Holst’s biographer as ‘impressively individual’, A Choral Fantasia features a concertante organ alongside brass, percussion and strings, a chorus and solo soprano. Autograph music manuscripts by Holst are rare at auction: only three have appeared in the last two decades. A Choral Fantasia was originally conceived as an organ concerto, but later adapted by Holst into a striking work that incorporated his friend Robert Bridges’ poem Ode to Music. 1930-1931).ģ¼ pages, 298 x 235mm, bifolium, 13 two-stave systems in brown ink on 12-stave paper, autograph annotations and cancellations in pencil and pen throughout. Autograph music manuscript signed (‘Gustav Holst’), the organ part from A Choral Fantasia, op. My mother (87), pianist, teacher (may the great spirit bless her), is selling these very rare Holst manuscripts to raise some money to get new windows in her house.Ĭhristies auction of Valuable Books and Manuscripts in London on J– Lots 584 and 585
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