Gustav Holst
United Kingdom, 1895–1934
English composer whose suite The Planets (1916) — above all the relentless 5/4 war machine of 'Mars' — created an orchestral vocabulary of cosmic menace that echoes through film music and rock.
United Kingdom, 1895–1934
English composer whose suite The Planets (1916) — above all the relentless 5/4 war machine of 'Mars' — created an orchestral vocabulary of cosmic menace that echoes through film music and rock.