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'Jupiter' from the fourth set, "Jupiter, the Bringer of Happiness" from the suite "The Planets" by the English composer Gustav Holst
Holst composed this piece in the years 1914 to 1916 for a large symphony orchestra, in the last sentence Neptune is an additional six-part women's choir used. It is late-Romantic program music, which is later in character, big orchestral film music and produced the same effect on the audience primarily through the monumental sound effects, and the timbres of the orchestra.
This suite was first performed in 1918 by the Royal Philharmonic Society |