Symphonic Poems (aka Tone Poems)


Mily Balakirev        -   Tamara 

Béla Bartók             -   Kossuth (1903)

Alexander Borodin  -  In the Steppes of Central Asia (actually 'Musical Picture'; 1880) 

Claude Debussy        -  Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) 
 
                                       La Mer (The Sea) 

Frederick Delius

      Paris: The Song of a Great City, VI/14 (1899–1900); nocturne for orchestra
      Eventyr (Once Upon a Time), VI/23 (1917)
      A Song of Summer, VI/26 (1929–30)
 
Paul Dukas                 -  L'apprenti sorcier  (The Sorcerer's Apprentice), symphonic scherzo after Goethe (1896–97) 

Antonín Dvořák:  He wrote five in two years; he is much better known for his symphonies and chamber music

      Vodník (The Water Goblin), Op. 107  (1896)
      Polednice (The Noon Witch), Op. 108  (1896)
      Zlatý kolovrat (The Golden Spinning Wheel), Op. 109  (1896)
      Holoubek (The Wild Dove), Op. 110  (1896; r. 1897)
      Píseň bohatýrská (A Hero's Song), Op. 111  (1897) 

Edward Elgar          -  In the South  

George Enescu        -  Vox maris

César Franck:  
 
      Les Éolides, M. 43  (1876)
      Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Huntsman), M. 44  (1882)
      Les Djinns, for piano and orchestra, M. 45  (1884) 

George Gershwin            -  An American in Paris  (actually 'Tone Poem'; 1928)
                                           Cuban Overture 

Alexander Glazunov        -  Stenka Razin

Gustav Holst                    -   Egdon Heath 

Arthur Honegger              -   Pacific 231

Franz Liszt   -  Liszt's symphonic poems

      Les Préludes, after Lamartine  (1848, rev. before 1854)  The only one still played much
      Orpheus  (1853–4)
      Prometheus  (1850)
      Mazeppa  (1851)
      Hamlet  (1858)
      Hunnenschlacht  (1857)
      Die Ideale  (1857) (after Schiller)

Modest Mussorgsky     -  Night on the Bald (Bare) Mountain 

Carl Nielsen                 -   Saga-Drøm (Saga Dream), Op. 39  (1908)
                                         Pan og Syrinx (Pan and Syrinx), Op. 49  (1918) 

Sergei Rachmaninoff:

     Prince Rostislav  (1891)
     The Rock, Op. 7  (1893)
     Caprice bohémien, Op. 12 (1892–94)
     Isle of the Dead, Op. 29  (1908)

Ottorino Respighi            -  Fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome), P 106  (1916); part I of Respighi's Roman Trilogy
                                            Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome), P 141  (1924); part II of Respighi's Roman Trilogy
                                            Feste Romane (Roman Festivals), P 157  (1928); part III of Respighi's Roman Trilogy

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov         -  Sadko (Symphonic Picture)
                                                       Scheherazade  

Camille Saint-Saëns                   -  Le Rouet d'Omphale, op.31  (1869)
                                                       Danse macabre, Op.40  (1874)  

Arnold Schoenberg                     -  Verklärte Nacht, Op.4
                                                        Pelleas und Melisande, Op.5 

Alexander Scriabin                      -  The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54 (1905–08); often listed as Symphony No. 4
                                                        Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60 (1910); often listed as Symphony No. 5

Jean Sibelius:  
 
  One of the most prolific (and significant) contributors to the genre; compositions marked with an asterisk were inspired by

      En saga (A Saga or A Fairy Tale), Op. 9 (1892, r. 1902)
      Vårsång (Spring Song), Op. 16 (1894, r. 1895 and 1902)
      Skogsrået (The Wood Nymph), Op. 15 (1894–95)
      Lemminkäinen Suite (also known as Four Legends from the Kalevala), a cycle of four symphonic poems, Op. 22 (1895) *

      Finlandia, Op. 26  (1899, r. 1900); arranged from Press Celebrations Music, JS 137
      Pohjolan tytär (Pohjola's Daughter), Op. 49 (1906) *
      Pan och Echo (Pan and Echo), Op. 53a (1906)
      Öinen ratsastus ja auringonnousu (Nightride and Sunrise), Op. 55 (1909)
      Dryadi (The Dryad), Op. 45/1 (1910)
      Luonnotar (Spirit of Nature), for soprano and orchestra, Op. 70 (1913); text from the Kalevala *
      Barden (The Bard), Op. 64 (1913, r. 1914)
      Aallottaret (The Oceanides), Op. 73  (1913–14, r. 1914)
      Tapiola, Op. 112  (1926) * 

Bedřich Smetana                        -  Má vlast (My Homeland), JB 1:112  (1874–79); a cycle of six symphonic poems: 

Richard Strauss:
 
   One of the most prolific (and important) contributors to the genre. He preferred the term "tone poem," rather than 
   "symphonic poem." 

      Don Juan, Op. 20  (1888)
      Macbeth, Op. 23  (1886–88)
      Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), Op. 24  (1889)
      Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), Op. 28  (1894–95)
      Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra), Op. 30  (1896)  -  Opening music in 2001: A Space Odyssey
      Don Quixote, Op. 35  (1897)
      Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op. 40  (1898)
      Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53  (1903)
      Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), Op. 64  (1915)

Igor Stravinsky               -  Le chant du rossignol  

Sergei Taneyev                -  Oresteia  
 
      The Storm, Op. (posth.) 76 (1864)
      Fatum, Op. 77 (1868)
      Romeo and Juliet, overture-fantasy after Shakespeare, TH 42 (1869–70, r. 1880)
      Francesca da Rimini, symphonic fantasia after Dante, Op. 32 (1876)
      The Tempest, symphonic fantasia after Shakespeare, Op. 18 (1873)
      Hamlet, overture-fantasy, Op. 67a (1889)
      The Voyevoda, Op. (posth.) 78 (1891)


Richard Wagner                  -  Siegfried Idyll 

Anton Webern                    -   Im Sommerwind (actually 'Idyll after B. Wille', 1904)


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