Talk:Gustav Holst
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Is Holtz really an alternative name for Holst? Isn't it just a somewhat naive misspelling? --Camembert
- I checked the Grove Dictionary today (the standard multi-volume music reference work), and it does not give "Holtz" as an alternative. Grove almost always gives alternative names, even if they are hardly ever used, so I removed this one from here. I think it's just a misspelling, as I said. --Camembert
I reordered the Other Works by year of completion. I suspect this section is going to get pretty long if the movements are all added in. Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda are in four sections with movements, each, for example. -- Marty
"Other Works" -- works other than what? Several are mentioned in the main section which are also listed here. Maybe this should just be a list of all works? Aaronrp 01:20, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Linking to the Military Band recording
According to Wikipedia:Copyrights#Linking to copyrighted works so long as (as is likely) their own recording is legitimate, this shouldn't be a problem. (Offsite linking to images causes a bandwidth issue and overusing the link to the wind band suites may eventually do the same, but that's a separate question.) Thanks for finding a compromise approach. Schissel : bowl listen 16:43, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the info and input. I'm a huge Holst fan, and I thought the link might help people curious about or interested in his music. I figured that the link-ees wouldnt mind because I linked to a page about the album, which included things like purchase information, instead of deep-inking the files. I didn't replace the links elsewhere in the article, even though they were broken, because another format was specified and because this was my first edit and I decided to take a minimalist approach. :)
[edit] "von Holst"
Why was he called "von Holst" and feared of being identificated as a German if he didn't have German roots (at least none of those are mentioned)? 129.13.186.4
- Because the name sounds German, and the anti-German hysteria of the First World War was particularly stupid. Septentrionalis 21:21, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Spelling of Names
Although he was originally named "Gustavus Theodor" by his parents, he clearly adopted the name Gustav during his lifetime, and I think this name should be given explicitly in the entry, as well as the title of the article. Myopic Bookworm 16:52, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cats
Is there a source for Holst actually practising astrology? Without one, the astrology cats should probably go. Septentrionalis 21:23, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Early life links?
I have fixed some of the links in the "early life" section but I don't know who "Doyle" is so I can't fix that one. Suggestions? --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 12:47, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
- Just what I was wondering. ("Holst grew up in the world of Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Doyle, Gauguin, Monet, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and Puccini.") Probably Arthur Conan Doyle? There is plenty of choice at Doyle but I don't know any Doyle conventionally referred to only by surname. Anyone got any other suggestions or shall we just do it? Flapdragon 15:00, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] State of the article
This page needs a serious rewrite/cleanup. --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 12:55, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
- It seems to be based on a single essay which combines biography and musicology in such a way that expanding any particular topic is almost impossible. If I get a chance I'll try and help unpack it, but it's quite a big job.Myopic Bookworm 13:45, 13
September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pictures
Does the article really need two pictures of the Royal College of Music. We get it, he went to the RCM. It just seems a bit superfluous. Gruesome Pet
[edit] English-Germans?
Does Holst really belong in Category:English-Germans? The article states that his family was Swedish, via Russia and Latvia. Any German connection was then presumably some way back (despite the "von" which was originally in his name). David Underdown 14:15, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
