Holst - Saturn, The Bringer of Old Age (from The Planets) - Piano Tutorial

👴 Old 👵 *and* beautiful! Saturn is an amazing piece!

Learn how to play Saturn, The Bringer of Old Age (from The Planets) by Gustav Holst on piano with this Synthesia piano tutorial! Please enjoy!

#Saturn is the fifth piece is the iconic orchestral suite #ThePlanets by #GustavHolst between 1914-1916. Saturn was written in 1914. This incredible solo piano arrangement sounds thoughtful, expressive and incredible on piano—any advanced level pianist will love listening to this recording and learning from our sheet music!

This piano arrangement of Saturn, The Bringer of Old Age (from The Planets) is fantastic to play! You can learn it with our #SheetMusicBoss Synthesia #PianoTutorial, or from our official Sheet Music Boss sheet music at the top of the description!

Arranged by Andrew Wrangell
Edited by Samuel Dickenson
Produced by Andrew Wrangell & Samuel Dickenson

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[Nurhaal]

Man I absolutely LOVE Holst's planet suite.

It covers such a huge range and he included some amazing practical effects back then (which of course is written into the music via notations). the finale for the Suite is Neptune I believe and it's the most 'mysterious sounding' movement. The ending was actually done by a chorus in a built room with a door and to get the fading effect to happen in concert, they'd slowly close the door to block the chorus's sound (like a volume or gain control).

Gustav was awesome.

[adrikrotten]

I know everyone loves Jupiter and all, but Saturn is my favorite.

All the way up till the last third you hear tons of tri-tones. The entire thing is just building up this strong powerful feeling of death and inevitability.

Then... everything calms. This sense of... acceptance and beauty overtakes the once horror of before. It is so good!

Any other Saturn fans out there?

[chorusofoddities]

Love the 'mini series' you keep doing between requests and random songs, something certain to look forward to!

[MaxArceus]

The end of Saturn always gets me to tears through sheer overwhelming beauty.
Even though a single piano cannot hope to achieve the richness of sound of an orchestra, today was not an exception.
Well done.

[manofcultura]

John Williams: write it down! Write it down!

[seemoore]

listening to this made me 80 years old.

[EpreTroll]

Just recently got into The planets, never knew you guys made these interpretations, really helpful

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

Saturn's favorite song is Single Ladies, he put a ring on it

[alexkarpenter]

I have always associated this part with the gradually approaching old age and death. Starting from 0:04 to 4:57, cyclical repetitions of the same ideas bring it closer and closer until a peak of tension occurs at 4:57-6:35, which in my view has always symbolized the death of an old man, summing up the whole life and its end. What happens after that? After all, the subsequent part at 7:07 sounds more hopeful and full of life than everything that came before. Could this be an afterlife? The old man is not so old anymore, he is young again, now in a completely different place, in a new world, in eternal life...

Wonderful work, guys! As always. Can't wait to hear Uranus and Neptune :))

[michaelogden]

This piece might have some of the craziest rhythm shenanigans in classical music. In particular, near the end, there are two separate 5/4 vs. 3/2 polymeters going on at the same time.

[hippolytabaker]

God I love this movement so much, 7:07 is my favorite part

[miuiruma]

Wow a few seconds into this and I’m already feeling relaxed

[kevinm]

thank you so much for this!!! One of my favorite pieces of music ever. The part from 7:05 to the end is so beautiful

[avecas]

Loving these covers! And I’m unironically excited for Uranus, which in my opinion is criminally underrated (the planet and the piece).

[listerofsmeg]

Always found the middle section of Saturn quite terrifying, especially as a kid.

[smortboi]

I was actually confused for a second cause there were no comments to scroll through. Didn’t realized the video came out 9 seconds ago

[harryparkin]

Please do the “Brandenburg Concerto no. 5 in D major”

[sammyfox]

I love the color choices for this peice, the saturny tan-yellow and the Icy blue work really well together

[inyoface]

On day 41, I announce that the Emotional prism will not be requested anymore, unless you want. Nevertheless, thank you for support.

[pogeman]

can't wait to hear Uranus and Neptune. Apart from Jupiter, I love the Sorcerer's Apprentive vibe from Uranus and the mysterious aura of Neptune.