Gustav Holst - The planets - Mars the bringer of war

Gustav Holst Mars the bringer of war The planets.

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[irontusk341]

AH, YES! finally the Original version!!!! you sir deserve 0 DISLIKES! :)

[thearmin]

Imperial March and bringer of war would be good theme songs for someone who whoops a lot

[coalsatchel]

wahooooooooo 0 dislikes.

[fhornplayer101]

Holst was iconic, so composers couldn't resist using his themes in their music. Even John Williams. This wasn't played in Star Wars, but John Williams definitely got a few ideas from this.

[wolftickets1969]

The first part is the basis for the Blockade Runner scene and the Rebel Fanfare, the Death Star leitmotif resembles the part at 2:28, and the Death Star's destruction music is lifted from the ending.

[wolftickets1969]

The MIDI music for the the second level of Descent II also resembles this.

[adragonro]

Is is played in Star Wars?

[pez100001]

4:49 this is what i play when i dress for work yusss

[Jayson Mangalino]

The image on the vid says arrangement on two pianos... but I think that the piano duet was the original instrumentation when Holst composed this, then the orchestration came later.

[DekuScrub3]

Awesome! Thank you very much for the information. :)

[maestrojimbo]

In 2000, the Hallé Orchestra commissioned the English composer Colin Matthews, an authority on Holst, to write a new eighth movement, which he called "Pluto, the Renewer". Dedicated to the late Imogen Holst, Gustav Holst's daughter, it was first performed in Manchester on 11 May 2000, with Kent Nagano conducting the Hallé Orchestra. Matthews also changed the ending of "Neptune" slightly so that movement would lead directly into "Pluto"