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What is Gustav Holst's best-known work?
- aThe Water Music
- bPeter Grimes
- cThe PlanetsCorrect answer
- dThe Pirates of Penzance
Why?
Holst wrote The Planets, an orchestral suite in which each movement is named after a planet. The Water Music is by Handel and Peter Grimes is an opera by Britten.
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