Gustav Holst's Uranus, the Magician

"The elaborate score of The Planets produces unusual, complex sounds by using some out-of-the-ordinary instruments in the large orchestra, such as a bass oboe, two timpani players, celesta, xylophone, tubular bells, and organ. Holst had been influenced by Igor Stravinsky, who used four oboes and four bassoons in his The Rite of Spring (1912–13), and by Schoenberg's 1909 composition Five Pieces for Orchestra."

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