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Holst: Victorian England
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Holst was an avid rambler. He walked extensively in Italy, France, and England. He ... travelled outside the bounds of Europe, heading to French-controlled Algeria in 1906 on doctor's orders as a treatment for asthma and the depression that crippled him after his submission failed to win the Ricordi Prize, a coveted award for composition. His travels in the Arab and Berber land, including an extensive bicycle tour of the Algerian Sahara, inspired the suite Beni Mora, written upon his return.
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Holst composed about 50 works. Because of the importance of choral singing in England, many of his compositions are for choir. The best known of these are The Hymn of Jesus (1917) and the Ode to Death (1922). He ... wrote many songs and several operas, including The Perfect Fool (1923) and At the Boar's Head (1925).
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Holst liked to ramble and walked extensively throughout England as well as France, Italy, and Spain. He traveled ... to Algeria, Arab areas of the world, and completed a bicycle tour of the Algerian Sahara. He believed that the best way to elarn about a city was to get lost in it.
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Holst was born on 21 September 1874, at 4 Clarence Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England[1][5][7] to a family of Swedish extraction (by way of Latvia and Russia). The house was opened as a museum of Holst's life and times in 1974. He was educated at Cheltenham Grammar School for Boys.
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