Imogen Claire Holst, CBE (12 April 1907-9 March 1984) was a British composer and conductor, and sole child of composer Gustav Holst. Imogen Holst was brought up in west London and educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where her father 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.

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  • Imogen Claire Holst, CBE (12 April 1907-9 March 1984) was a British composer and conductor, and sole child of composer Gustav Holst. Imogen Holst was brought up in west London and educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where her father 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. She won several prizes for composition including the Cobbett prize for a string quartet (1928). In 1931 Holst began earning her living as a freelance musician, though her hopes of being a concert pianist were dashed by incipient phlebitis in her left arm. In April 1939 Holst went to Switzerland to study, and she returned just before the outbreak of war. She served on the Bloomsbury House Refugee Committee, working for musicians from Austria and Germany, and in January 1940 was appointed by Sir Henry Walford Davies to be one of six musicians charged with inspiring and organizing musical activities among civilians in rural areas. The scheme, originally funded by the Pilgrim Trust, was taken over by the newly formed Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts, forerunner of the Arts Council of Great Britain. In July 1951 she resumed her freelance career, and in the autumn of 1952 the composer Benjamin Britten asked her to come to Aldeburgh, Suffolk, to help with his opera Gloriana. She had first met him and his partner, the tenor Peter Pears, in the 1940s and they became close friends. She lived in Aldeburgh for the rest of her life, initially working closely with Britten both as his music assistant and for the Aldeburgh Festival, of which she was an artistic director from 1956 to 1977. In 1963 she published An ABC of Music, an introduction to music theory, which is still in print. In 1964 Imogen Holst left Aldeburgh to concentrate on the recording and editing the music of her father. With composer Colin Matthews she edited scholarly editions of her father's works (including four volumes of facsimiles) and compiled A Thematic Catalogue of Gustav Holst's Music (1974). She was appointed a fellow of the Royal College of Music in 1966, an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in 1970 and to the CBE in 1975. She received honorary doctorates from the universities of Essex (1968), Exeter (1969), and Leeds (1983). She is buried in the churchyard of Saint Peter and Saint Paul's Church in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England. Her grave can be found directly behind those of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. In 2007, Boydell Press published Imogen Holst: A Life in Music, edited by Christopher Grogan et al. , to celebrate the 100th anniversary of her birth.
  • Imogen Claire Holst war eine englische Musikschriftstellerin, Komponistin und Dirigentin. Holst war die Tochter des Komponisten Gustav Holst und seiner Frau Isobel Harrison. Sie ging an der St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith zur Schule und studierte am Royal College of Music in London. 1941-44, während des Zweiten Weltkriegs, arbeitete sie als Organisatorin beim Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts, 1943-51 als musikalische Leiterin beim Arts Centre in Dartington Hall. 1952 ging Holst als Mitarbeiterin von Benjamin Britten nach Aldeburgh und wurde 1956 künstlerische Leiterin des dortigen Festivals. 1953 gründete sie die Purcell Singers und war bis 1967 deren Dirigentin. Unter ihren Schriften wurde vor allem die Biographie ihres Vaters bekannt, ihre weiteren Bücher befassen sich mit mittelalterlicher Musik, Volks-, Renaissance- und Barockmusik. Sie komponierte auch, hauptsächlich für Gesang und für Streichinstrumente, und arrangierte Volkslieder.
  • イモージェン・クレア・ホルスト, CBE（Imogen Claire Holst, CBE, 1907年4月12日 - 1984年3月9日）はイギリスの音楽学者、指揮者、作曲家、鍵盤楽器奏者。正しくは「イモージェン」ではなく、イにアクセントがつき「イモジェン」と読む。作曲家グスターヴ・ホルストの娘として、イギリスの大ロンドン特別区リッチモンド（London Borough of Richmond upon Thames）に生まれた。父の作品の編曲・指揮などで知られる。 父が音楽教師をしていた、ハマースミスのセント・ポール女学院を経て、王立音楽大学（Royal College of Musicに第二次世界大戦中の1941年から1944年まで在学し、レイフ・ヴォーン・ウィリアムズおよびゴードン・ジェイコブに師事した。1943年から1951年にかけて音楽・美術振興委員会(Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts)にオルガニストとして勤務し、ダーリントン・ホール内のアート・センターの音楽監督を務めた。 1952年、イモージェン・ホルストはオールドバラに行き、作曲家ベンジャミン・ブリテンと共同で働くようになった。1956年にはオールドバラ音楽祭の芸術監督に就任する。1953年には古楽演奏団体パーセル・シンガースを創立し、1967年までパーセル・シンガースの指揮者を務めた。 イモージェンの音楽学者としての著作で最も有名なものは、父の伝記である。他に、中世音楽、イギリス民謡、ルネサンス音楽、バロック音楽についての著書が多数ある。作曲家としては、声楽曲、弦楽曲、イギリス民謡の編曲で知られる。 1984年に逝去。イモージェンの墓はオールドバラの聖ペテロ聖パウロ教会にあり、ベンジャミン・ブリテンとピーター・ピアーズの墓の真後ろに位置している。
  • Imogen Claire Holst, was een Britse componist, dirigent en musicoloog. Ze was de dochter van componist Gustav Holst en groeide op in Londen, waar haar vader werkzaam was. Haar carrière als concertpianiste werd bemoeilijkt door een flebitis. In 1926 begon zij haar studie compositie bij onder andere Gordon Jacob en Ralph Vaughan Williams. Van 1952 tot 1964 was Holst de muzikale assistent van Benjamin Britten. Van 1956 tot 1977 was ze artistiek directeur van het Aldeburgh Festival. Holst won verschillende prijzen voor haar composities. Imogen Holst stelde in 1974 de Thematic Catalogue of Gustav Holst's Music samen en publiceerde diverse boeken over haar vader en een aantal andere componisten, zoals Johann Sebastian Bach, William Byrd en Benjamin Britten.
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  • Imogen Claire Holst, CBE (12 April 1907-9 March 1984) was a British composer and conductor, and sole child of composer Gustav Holst. Imogen Holst was brought up in west London and educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where her father 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 Claire Holst war eine englische Musikschriftstellerin, Komponistin und Dirigentin. Holst war die Tochter des Komponisten Gustav Holst und seiner Frau Isobel Harrison. Sie ging an der St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith zur Schule und studierte am Royal College of Music in London. 1941-44, während des Zweiten Weltkriegs, arbeitete sie als Organisatorin beim Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts, 1943-51 als musikalische Leiterin beim Arts Centre in Dartington Hall.
  • Imogen Claire Holst, was een Britse componist, dirigent en musicoloog. Ze was de dochter van componist Gustav Holst en groeide op in Londen, waar haar vader werkzaam was. Haar carrière als concertpianiste werd bemoeilijkt door een flebitis. In 1926 begon zij haar studie compositie bij onder andere Gordon Jacob en Ralph Vaughan Williams. Van 1952 tot 1964 was Holst de muzikale assistent van Benjamin Britten. Van 1956 tot 1977 was ze artistiek directeur van het Aldeburgh Festival.
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