"The cloud messenger": London, [1910].

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"The cloud messenger": London, [1910].

The Cloud Messenger. Ode for Chorus and Orchestra, founded on a Sanscrit poem of Kalidasa. Words and Music by Holst. Op. 30. First performed by Balfour Gardiner in 1913. A piano score has been published; this orchestral score has not been published. See Imogen Holst, Gustav Holst (London, 1938), pp 37, 41, 173.

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Holst, Gustav

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Gustav Holst (1874-1934), composer and music teacher, was born in Cheltenham, and educated at the local grammar school and at the Royal College of Music. He taught at St Pauls Girls School, and composed many pieces, most notably The Planets. His daughter Imogen was educated at St Pauls and the Royal College of Music, and was among other appointments Director of Music at Dartington Hall, Devon. She wrote on a number of musical themes, but most significantly her father and Benjamin Britten, she be...