Title: The Planets
Content:  The Planets was composed over nearly three years, between 1914 and 1917. The work had its origins in March and April 1913, when Gustav Holst and his friend and benefactor Balfour Gardiner holidayed in Spain with the composer Arnold Bax and his brother, the author Clifford Bax. A discussion about astrology piqued Holst's interest in the subject. Clifford Bax later commented that Holst became "a remarkably skilled interpreter of horoscopes". Shortly after the holiday Holst wrote to a friend: "I only study things that suggest music to me. That's why I worried at Sanskrit. Then recently the character of each planet suggested lots to me, and 
Title: The Planets
Content:  he is known to have owned a copy of the score. Holst described The Planets as "a series of mood pictures", acting as "foils to one another", with "very little contrast in any one of them". Short writes that some of the characteristics the composer attributed to the planets may have been suggested by Alan Leo's booklet What is a Horoscope?, which he was reading at the time. Holst took the title of two movements – "Mercury, the Winged Messenger" and "Neptune, the Mystic" – from Leo's books. But although astrology was Holst's starting point, he arranged the planets to suit his own plan: In an 
Title: Gustav Holst
Content:  Holst conceived the idea of The Planets in 1913, partly as a result of his interest in astrology, and also from his determination, despite the failure of Phantastes, to produce a large-scale orchestral work. The chosen format may have been influenced by Schoenberg's Fünf Orchesterstücke, and shares something of the aesthetic, Matthews suggests, of Debussy's Nocturnes or La mer. Holst began composing The Planets in 1914; the movements appeared not quite in their final sequence; "Mars" was the first to be written, followed by "Venus" and "Jupiter". "Saturn", "Uranus" and "Neptune" were all composed during 1915, and "Mercury" was completed in 1916. Each planet 
Title: The Planets
Content:  have produced versions of Pluto for The Planets include Leonard Bernstein and Jun Nagao. The suite has been adapted for numerous instruments and instrumental combinations, including organ, synthesiser, brass band, and jazz orchestra. Holst used the melody of the central section of "Jupiter" for a setting ("Thaxted") of the hymn "I Vow to Thee, My Country" in 1921. The Planets has been taken as an influence by various rock bands, and for film scores such as those for the Star Wars series. There have been numerous references to the suite in popular culture, from films to television and computer games.
Title: The Planets (film)
Content:  The Planets is a 1983 TV film directed by Ken Russell based on about Gustav Holst's musical suite of the same name. It was made specially for The South Bank Show, the weekly arts programme of the ITV network in Britain. It is a wordless collage that matches stock footage to each of the seven movements of the Holst suite. John Coulthart wrote "familiar Russell obsessions appear: Nazis, naked women and the inevitable crucifixion." After essentially disappearing for decades, in 2016 the film was re-released on DVD by Arthaus Musik. It was also known as Ken Russell's view of "The Planets".
Title: The Planets (band)
Content: Ruth Miller (flute) ; Ben Pugsley (electric, classical and flamenco guitars ; Jonathan Hill (violin) ; Anne-Kathrin Schirmer (guitar and clarinet) ; Lac-Hong Phi (cello) ; Salima Williams (oboe) ; Beverley Jones (bass, double bass) ; Michael Kruk (drums, percussion) The Planets was a classical crossover music band formed by Mike Batt in 2001. The Planets made their public debut supporting Deep Purple's 2002 UK tour. The band was made of:
Title: Cultural influence of Holst's The Planets
Content:  manuscripts for it are now in the holdings of the Royal College of Music (Mars, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune), Royal Academy of Music (Mercury) and British Library (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus). ; Pianola – In the early 1990s an arrangement was made for piano rolls by the English pianolist, Rex Lawson, and published on the Perforetur label. ; Organ – American harpsichordist and organist Peter Sykes transcribed The Planets for organ. ; Ensemble or Chamber Orchestra – English orchestrator George Morton transcribed The Planets for 15-piece ensemble or chamber orchestra. ; Moog – Isao Tomita adapted The Planets for a Moog and other synthesizers and electronic 
Title: Cultural influence of Holst's The Planets
Content:  original it was derived from a select few of the main melodies ; On Black Sabbath's 1990 tour promoting the album Tyr, parts of "Mars" were used as playback during Cozy Powell's drum solo. ; The 1985 album Beyond the Planets, by Jeff Wayne, Rick Wakeman and Kevin Peek (with narration by Patrick Allen), is a rock arrangement of the entire suite. ; In 2020, the Jeremy Levy Jazz Orchestra released The Planets: Reimagined, recasting all seven moments into a jazz arrangement. Levy's arrangement of "Uranus: The Magician" received a Grammy nomination for 'Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella' at the 2021 Grammy Awards show. 
Title: The Planets
Content:  The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1917. In the last movement the orchestra is joined by a wordless female chorus. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the Solar System and its supposed astrological character. The premiere of The Planets was at the Queen's Hall, London on 29 September 1918, conducted by Holst's friend Adrian Boult before an invited audience of about 250 people. Three concerts at which movements from the suite were played were given in 1919 and early 1920. The first complete performance at a public concert was given at the Queen's Hall on 15 November 1920 by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Albert Coates. The innovative nature of Holst's music caused some initial hostility among a minority of critics, but the suite quickly became and has remained popular, influential and widely performed. The composer conducted two recordings of the work, and it has been recorded at least 80 times subsequently by conductors, choirs and orchestras from the UK and internationally.
Title: Planets (song)
Content: Shaun Diviney – guitar, vocals ; Andy Clemmensen – bass guitar, vocals ; Bradie Webb – drums, keyboard Short Stack

Question: Who was the composer of The Planets?
Answer: Gustav Holst.
Gustav Theodore Holst.
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Gustavus Theodore von Holst.