List of symphonic poems
This is a list of some notable symphonic poems.
Mily Balakirev
- Russia (Second Overture on Russian Themes)
- In Bohemia (Overture on Czech Themes)
- Tamara
Béla Bartók
- Kossuth (1903)
Arnold Bax
Hector Berlioz
- Chasse royale et orage
Alexander Borodin
- In the Steppes of Central Asia (actually 'Musical Picture'; 1880)
George Whitefield Chadwick
Ernest Chausson
Claude Debussy
- Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)
- La Mer (The Sea)
Frederick Delius
- A Song of Summer
- Eventyr (Once Upon a Time)
- On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring (actually the first of Two Pieces for Small Orchestra; 1912)
Paul Dukas
- L'apprenti-sorcier (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) (actually Symphonic Scherzo after Goethe; 1897)
Antonín Dvořák
- The Water Goblin, Op. 107
- The Noon Witch, Op. 108
- The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op. 109
- The Wild Dove, Op. 110
- A Hero's Song, Op. 111
Edward Elgar
George Enescu
Lorenzo Ferrero
- La nueva España – Suite of 6 Symphonic Poems (1992–1999)
Zdeněk Fibich
- Othello, Op. 6
- Spring, Op 13
- Záboj, Slavoj a Luděk, Op. 37
- The Tempest, Op. 46
- Toman and the Wood Nymph, Op. 49
César Franck
- Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne, symphonic poem after Victor Hugo, (1845–87, posth.)
- Rédemption, for soprano, chorus and orchestra, M. 52 (1872, r. 1874)
- Les Éolides, M. 43 (1876)
- Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Huntsman), M. 44 (1882)
- Les Djinns, for piano and orchestra, M. 45 (1884)
- Psyché, for orchestra and chorus, M. 47 (1886–88)
George Gershwin
- An American in Paris (actually 'Tone Poem'; 1928)
- Cuban Overture
Alexander Glazunov
Ferde Grofé
Percy Grainger
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
- Miserae (1933–34, previously titled Symphony No. 1)
Lee Holdridge
- Scenes of Summer (September/October 1973)
Gustav Holst
Arthur Honegger
John Ireland
- The Forgotten Rite (1913, published 1918)
Mieczysław Karłowicz
- Returning Waves, Op. 9 (1904)
- Eternal Songs, Op. 10 (1906)
- Lithuanian Rhapsody, Op. 11 (1906)
- Stanisław i Anna Ošwiecimowie, Op. 12 (1906)
- Sorrowful Tale, op.13 (1908)
- An Episode during Masquerade, Op. 14 (1908–09)
Franz Liszt
- Liszt's symphonic poems:
- Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne (1848–9) (after Victor Hugo)
- Tasso: lamento e trionfo (1849) (after Byron)
- Les Préludes, after Lamartine (1848, rev. before 1854)
- Orpheus (1853–4)
- Prometheus (1850)
- Mazeppa (1851)
- Festklänge (1853)
- Héroïde funèbre (1849–50)
- Hungaria (1854)
- Hamlet (1858)
- Hunnenschlacht (1857)
- Die Ideale (1857) (after Schiller)
- Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (1881–2)
Frederik Magle
- Cantabile suite – 3 symphonic poems (2004–09)
Paul McCartney
Felix Mendelssohn
- The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) (1830)
Richard Mohaupt
- Town Piper Music (Stadtpfeifermusik) (1941)
Modest Mussorgsky
Carl Nielsen
- Saga-Drøm (1908)
- Pan and Syrinx (1918)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Prince Rostislav (1891)
- The Rock, Op. 7 (1893)
- Caprice Bohémien, op.12 (1894)
- Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (1909)
Osmo Tapio Räihälä
- Barlinnie Nine (2005)
Max Reger
- Four Tone Poems after Arnold Böcklin for Orchestra, Op. 128 (1913)
Cemal Reşit Rey
- Bebek Efsanesi, symphonic poem for orchestra
- Karagöz
- Denizciler Marşı Başlayış
- Çağrılış
- Fatih
Ottorino Respighi
- Brazilian Impressions
- The Roman trilogy, The Pines of Rome, The Fountains of Rome, and Roman Festivals
Silvestre Revueltas
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Night on Mount Triglav
- Sadko (Symphonic Picture)
- Scheherazade
Camille Saint-Saëns
- Spartacus (1863)
- Le Rouet d'Omphale, op.31 (1869)
- Phaéton, op. 39 (1873)
- Danse macabre, Op.40 (1874)
- La Jeunesse d'Hercule, Op.50 (1877)
- La Muse et le Poète, Op.132 (1910)
Arnold Schoenberg
- Verklärte Nacht, Op.4
- Pelleas und Melisande, Op.5
Alexander Scriabin
- The Poem of Ecstasy, Op.54 (1905)
- Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60 (1910)
Dmitri Shostakovich
- October, Op. 131 (1967)
Jean Sibelius
- 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)
- Lemminkäinen Suite (also known as Four Legends from the Kalevala), Op. 22 (1895)
- Lemminkäinen ja saaren neidot (Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of the Island) (1895, r. 1897 and 1939)
- Tuonelan joutsen (The Swan of Tuonela) (1893-1895, r. 1897 and 1900)
- Lemminkäinen Tuonelassa (Lemminkäinen in Tuonela) (1895, r. 1897 and 1939)
- Lemminkäinen palaa kotitienoille (Lemminkäinen's Return) (1895, r. 1897 and 1900)
- 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 (1914, r. 1914)
- Tapiola, Op. 112 (1926)
Bedřich Smetana
- Má vlast, a cycle of six symphonic poems
- Vyšehrad (The High Castle)
- Vltava (also known as Die Moldau)
- Šárka
- Z českých luhů a hájů (From Bohemia's woods and fields)
- Tábor
- Blaník
Richard Strauss
One of the most prolific in the genre. He preferred the concept "tone poem".
- Aus Italien
- Don Juan
- Death and Transfiguration
- Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
- Also sprach Zarathustra
- Don Quixote
- Ein Heldenleben
- Symphonia Domestica
- Eine Alpensinfonie
- Macbeth, Op. 23 (1888)
Josef Suk
- Pohádka Léta, Op.29 (A Summer's Tale)
Igor Stravinsky
- Le Chant du Rossignol
Sergei Taneyev
- Oresteia (labeled as an "overture", but really a symphonic poem based on themes from his opera of the same name)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Fatum (1868)
- Romeo and Juliet (1869)
- Francesca da Rimini (actually 'Symphonic Fantasia after Dante'; 1876)
- The Tempest (actually 'Symphonic Fantasia after Shakespeare'; 1873)
Geirr Tveitt
Johan Wagenaar
- Saul en David
Richard Wagner
Anton Webern
- Im Sommerwind (actually 'Idyll after B. Wille', 1904)
Eric Whitacre
- Godzilla Eats Las Vegas (for winds, 1996)
Haydn Wood
- Mannin Veen: Dear Isle of Man (1933)
Alexander Zemlinsky
- Die Seejungfrau (1905)
See also
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