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Gustav Holst
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Classical music’s child prodigies
21. Gustav Holst
Young Holst learnt the violin and the piano when he was a child, and started composing at the age of 12 - he even learnt the trombone in the hope it might cure his asthma. His mother was a singer and violinist.
