Refleksije ezoterijskih učenja u Planetama Gustava Holsta
Reflection Of Esoteric Studies In Gustav Holst’s The Planets

Summary/Abstract: Gustav Holst (1874–1934) was a British composer who lived and worked in the period when India became the United Kingdom's colony. Holst accepted the Hindu culture without critical approach, he studied it, and integrated the postulates of Hindu philosophy in his compositions. In addition, that period represented an expansion of new religious, occult, modernist movements, for which Holst became interested. The author considered Hindu phylosophic concepts, whose realisation in music can be seen in the example of the last movement – Neptune, the Mystic – of the Holst’s composition The Planets (1914–1916). The aim of this text is to accentuate the achievement of illusion in music, as well as the means by which this is achieved.

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