Imogen Holst
English composer, arranger, conductor, teacher and festival administrator (1907-1984) · United Kingdom · On the map · Musicians · Died at 76
Imogen Clare Holst was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist and festival administrator. The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she is particularly known for her educational work at Dartington Hall in the 1940s, and for her 20 years as joint artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival.
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The house in Barnes where the Holst family lived between 1908 and 1913
The Royal College of Music
Cecil Sharp House, London headquarters of the English Folk Dance and Song Society
A CEMA concert during the Second World War (a performance of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf by the Ballet Rambert)
The main hall at Dartington
Benjamin Britten, photographed in the mid-1960
The concert hall at Snape Maltings, home of the Aldeburgh Festival from 1967Awards
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In addition to composing music, she wrote composer biographies, much educational material and several books on the life and works of her father.
