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List of symphonic poems

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This is a list of some notable composers who wrote symphonic poems.

  • En skärgardssägen, Op. 20 (1903)
  • Isabella or the Pot of Basil (1909, after the poem by John Keats)
  • Pompilia (1903)
  • Paracelsus, Op. 8 (1904, after the poem by Robert Browning)
  • Thalassa (1933, reworked into his Symphony No. 2 in D minor between 1939-40)
  • Russia Second Overture on Russian Themes (1863–64, revised 1884)
  • In Bohemia Overture on Czech Themes (1867, revised 1905)
  • Tamara (1867–82)
  • Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan (1905)
  • Into the Twilight (1908)
  • In the Faëry Hills (1909)
  • Rosc-catha (1910)
  • Christmas Eve (1912, r. 1921)
  • Nympholept (1912, orch. 1915, r. 1935)
  • The Garden of Fand (1913, orch. 1916)
  • Spring Fire (1913)
  • In Memoriam (1916)
  • November Woods (1917)
  • Tintagel (1917, orch. 1919)
  • Summer Music (1917, orch. 1921, r. 1932)
  • The Happy Forest (1922)
  • The Tale the Pine Trees Knew (1931)
  • Northern Ballad No. 1 (1927)
  • Northern Ballad No. 2 (1934)
  • Prelude for a Solemn Occasion (Northern Ballad No. 3) (1927, orch. 1933)
  • A Legend (1944)
  • Pan for soprano and orchestra, Op. 13 (1931)
  • Yizkor (Evocation) for violin and orchestra (1942)
  • Traumgewalten (1910)
  • Varde ljus! (1914)
  • Chasse royale et orage from the Opera Les Troyens (1856–58)
  • Slaget vid Leipzig (The Battle of Leipzig, 1828)
  • Elfenspiel (Play of the Elves , 1841)
  • Ernste und heitere Grillen (Serious and Merry Whims , 1842)
  • Erinnerung an die norwegischen Alpen (Reminiscence of the Norwegian Mountains, 1842)
  • Bayaderen-Fest (Festival of the Bayadères, 1842)
  • Wettlauf (Racing, 1842)
  • Trenmor (1905, after a legend from Ossian)
  • Eine Karneval-Szene, Op. 5 (A Carnival Scene, 1886)
  • Vivre-aimer (1900)
  • Hiver-printemps (1904-05)
  • Voice in the Wilderness (1936)
  • Salomé, Op. 100 (1909, unpublished)
  • Ophélie, Op. 165 (published in 2018)
  • Le Rêve de Cléopâtre, Op. 180 (The dream of Cleopatra, published in 2018)
  • Hamlet, Op. 13 (1903)
  • Jesus i Gethsemane, Op. 14 (Jesus in Gethsemane, 1904)
  • John Gabriel Borkman, Op. 15 (1905)
  • Die Nacht der Toten, Op. 16 (The Night of the Dead, 1905)
  • Tanken, Op. 26 (The Idea, 1917)
  • Othello, Op. 19 (1914)
  • A Summer Night (1899, rev 1903)
  • Imperial Elegy: Into the Everlasting (1901)
  • Troilus and Cressida (Thou and I) (1902)
  • Love in Spring (1906)
  • Midnight for Chorus & Orchestra (1907)
  • D'un matin de printemps (A spring morning, 1918)
  • D'un soir triste (A sad evening, 1918)
  • The Lament of Tasso, Op.5 (1902)
  • Symphonic Fantasia, Op.16 (1905)
  • Curriculum ll: Spatial Tone Poem
  • Hero and Leander Op. 8 (1904–06, lost)
  • Humorous Legend on Three Blind Mice (1908–09, withdrawn)
  • In Memoriam (1910)
  • Doctor Merryheart Comedy Overture No. 1 (1911-2)
  • The Battle Song (sketched between 1930 and 1931, completed by John Pickard in 1997)
  • Elegy (1954)
  • Mid of the Night (1903)
  • Isabella (1907, after John Keats)
  • Summer (1914-15)
  • Enter Spring (1926-27)
  • Manfred (c.1901)
  • La belle au bois dormant (The sleeping beauty, 1894)
  • Symphonisches Tongedicht, Op. 31a (1893)
  • Pagine di Guerra for four-hand piano (1915, revised and orchestrated in 1918)
  • A Notte Alta, Op. 30 for solo piano (1917, arranged for piano and orchestra in 1921)
  • Symphonic Sketches (1895-1904)
  • Cleopatra (1904)
  • Aphrodite Symphonic Fantasy (1910–11)
  • Tam o' Shanter, Symphonic Ballad (1914–15)
  • Angel of Death (1917–18)
  • Cloud and Sunshine (1890)
  • A Song of the Waters, Op. 53 (1976)
  • Hiawatha (1887-8, completed by Robert Threlfall)
  • Three Small Tone-poems, VI/7 (1890)
  1. Summer Evening
  2. Winter Night (or, Sleigh Ride)
  3. Spring Morning
  • Paa Vidderne (On the Mountains), VI/10 (1890–92)
  • Over the Hills and Far Away, VI/11 (1895–97); fantasy overture for orchestra
  • Paris: The Song of a Great City, VI/14 (1899-1900); nocturne for orchestra
  • Two Pieces for Small Orchestra, VI/19 (1911–12)
  1. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
  2. Summer Night on the River
  • Julius Caesar (1860, rev 1865)
  • Frithjof (1865)
  • Der Thunersee (1903)
  • L'apprenti sorcier (The Sorcerer's Apprentice), symphonic scherzo after Goethe (1896–97)
  • Le fil de parque (c.1908, proyected or destroyed)
  • Aux étoiles (only extant movement from the Poème nocturne, 1874)
  • Lénore (1875)
  • Siena (1907, lost)
  • Isis (unfinished, 1923; completed by Pascal Bentoiu)
  • Vox maris, Op. 31 (1929–54)
  • El sueño de Eros (The dream of Eros, 1912)
  • Don Quijote velando las armas (Don Quixote guarding the weapons, 1924)
  • Mowgli (1907)
  • Summer Vision (1913, lost)
  • Pannychis (1942)
  • Othello, Op. 6 (1873)
  • Spring, Op 13 (1881)
  • Záboj, Slavoj a Luděk, Op. 37 (1873)
  • The Tempest, Op. 46 (1880)
  • Toman and the Wood Nymph, Op. 49 (1874–75)
  • Mé Mládí, Op. 44 (My Youth, 1900)
  • Jaro a touha, Op. 93 (Springtime and Desire, 1912)
  • Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne, symphonic poem after Victor Hugo, (1846)
  • Rédemption, for soprano, chorus and orchestra, M. 52 (1872, r. 1874)
  • Les Éolides, M. 43 (1875–76)
  • Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Huntsman), M. 44 (1881–82)
  • Les Djinns, for piano and orchestra, M. 45 (1884)
  • Psyché, for orchestra and chorus, M. 47 (1886–88)
  • Transitions (unknown date)
  • Hamlet (1897)
  • The Willow Song (a.k.a. "Othello", 1922)
  • Knight in Armour, Op. 8 (1942)
  • Death on a Pale Horse, Op. 25 (1943)
  • The Sirens, Op. 33 (1908)
  • The Zaporozhy Cossacks, Op. 64 (1921)
  • The Bequest, Op. 73 (1941)
  • Zrínyi, Op. 47 (1903)
  • Perseus, Op. 3 (1912)
  • The Eternal Rhythm, Op. 5 (1913)
  • Train Music (1901–57)
  • Čekání (Waiting, 1942)
  • Děti Daidalovy (Daedalus' Children, 1961)
  • Knute Rockne (1931)
  • Rip Van Winkle (1932-1954, reworked into "Hudson River Suite")
  • Trylon and Perisphere (1939, later renamed as "Black Gold")
  • Atlantic Crossing (1965)
  • Chasse fantastique (1887)
  • Salome, Op. 55 (1905)
  • Lucifer, Op. 66 (1914)
  • Othello, Op. 96 (1919)
  • The Ocean, Op. 99 (1921)
  • Before the Dawn (1920)
  • Exaltation, Op. 20 (1920)
  • North and West (1923)
  • Lux aeterna, Op. 24 (1923–26)
  • Pan and the Priest, Op. 26 (1926)
  • Miserae (1933–34, previously titled Symphony No. 1)
  • With the Wild Geese (1910)
  • The Children of Lir (1938)
  • The Lost Hunter (1945)
  • The Raven, Op. 25 (1899-1900, rev 1903)
  • Ode to Victory. Op. 29 (1901, destroyed)
  • The Viking, Op. 32 (1901, rev 1912)
  • Ulalume, Op. 35 (1903)
  • The Birds of Rhiannon, Op. 87 (c.1922)
  • Scenes of Summer (1973)
  • Hymne à Apollon (Hymn to Apollo, 1872)
  • Les Argonautes (The Argonauts, 1880)
  • Irlande (Ireland, 1882)
  • Andromède (Andromeda, 1883)
  • Pologne (Poland, 1883)
  • La Nuit et l'Amour ("Night and love" interlude from the ode "Ludus pro Patria", 1888)
  • Pastorale d'été (1920)
  • Pacific 231 Symphonic Movement No. 1 (1924)
  • Rugby Symphonic Movement No. 2 (1928)
  • Radio-panoramique (1935)
  • Copernicus, Op. 338 (1960)
  • Komachi 7 miniature tone poems for piano, Op. 240 (1971)
  • La Divine Comédie (The Divine Comedy after Dante, 1871)
  • Poème des montagnes for piano, Op. 15 (Poem of the Mountains, 1881)
  • Istar, Op. 42 (1896)
  • On the Volga, Op. 50 (1910)
  • Varavīksne (Rainbow, 1939)
  • Lāčplēsis (Lacplesis, 1957)
  • Poema Luttuoso for string orchestra (1966)
  • Novella Brevis (1982)
  • Ode to the Motherland, Op. 13 (1959)
  • Wonders of Naxi, Op. 25 (1984)
  • Mountain Soul, Op. 39 (1995)
  • A Hundred Years of Vicissitudes, Op. 41 (1996)
  • Spring, Op. 65 (1960)
  • The Eternal Flame in Bryansk, Op. 85 (1968?)
  • Minas, the Rebel Corsair of the Aegean (1940)
  • The Death of the Valiant Woman (1943, rev 1944–45)
  • Saatus (Fate, 1925)
  • Prinz Karneval (1908)
  • Returning Waves, Op. 9 (1904)
  • Eternal Songs, Op. 10 (1906)
  • Lithuanian Rhapsody, Op. 11 (1906)
  • Stanisław i Anna Oświecimowie, Op. 12 (1906)
  • A Sorrowful Tale, Op. 13 (1907–08)
  • An Episode during Masquerade, Op. 14 (1908–09)
  • Paolo und Francesca (1913)
  • Jahrmarkt bei London (1922)
  • On the Mountain Pass (1940)
  • Tales about the New Land (1958-60)
  • Letters to a Girl Friend (1961)
  • Hiawatha (circa 1908)
  • A Fairy Tale (circa 1913)
  • Tomorrow for mezzo-soprano, women's choir and orchestra, Op. 31 (1944, from the movie The Constant Nymph)
  • In Memoriam, Op. 35 (1941)
  • Aurora (1948)[1]
  • Возз’єднання, Op. 49 (Reunification, 1949–50)
  • Grazyna, Op 58 (1955)
  • На берегах Вислы, Op. 59 (On the Banks of the Vistula, 1958)
  • Lyric poem "To the Memory of Gliere", Op. 66 (1964)
  • Hamlet and Ophelia, Op. 22 (1884)
  • Lancelot and Elaine, Op.25 (1886)
  • Lamia, Op. 29 (1888)
  • Die Sarazenen & Die schöne Aldâ, Op.30 (1886-90)
  • Kullervo, Op. 15 (1913)
  • Sammon ryöstö (The Abduction of The Sampo), for baritone and male choir, Op. 24 (1915); text from the Kalevala
  • Aslak Smaukka, for baritone and male choir, Op. 37 (1917)
  • Väinämöisen kylvö (Väinämöinen Sows the Wilderness), for soprano (or tenor), Op. 46 (1919–20); text from the Kalevala
  • La Cova del Drach (The Cave of Drach, 1904)
  • En la Alhambra (In Alhambra, circa 1905)
  • La Vida (Life, 1906)
  • Oceánica (Oceanic, unknown date)
  • Angel of Death H 17 (1910)
  • Vanishing Midnight Cycle of symphonic poems H 131 (1922)
  • Comala (1889)
  • Siikajoki, Op. 28 (1903-04)
  • Traumgesicht, Op. 70 (1910)
  • Patria, Op. 72 (1911)
  • Lemminkäinen (1916)
  • Pan (1924)
  • Notturno (1928)
  • The Abduction of Kyllikki (1936)
  • Jesus (1928, lost)
  • Town Piper Music (Stadtpfeifermusik, 1941)
  • Moby Dick (1928)
  • In Memoriam (1943)
  • The Path of Victory (1950)
  • Silence, after the fable by Edgar Allan Poe, Op. 9 (1909–10)
  • Alastor, After the poem by Shelley, Op. 14 (1912)
  • Regnar Lodbrog, Op. 2 (1900-01)
  • Sommernatsstemning! (1903, lost, only an arrangement for 4-hand-piano remains)
  • In Memoriam (1904)
  • Babelstaarnet, Op.35 (Tower of Babel, 1912-14)
  • Hjortholm (1923)
  • Step, Op. 66 (The Steppe, 1895)
  • V Tatrách, Op. 26 (In the Tatra mountains, 1902)
  • O večné touze, Op. 33 (Eternal Longing, 1903–05), after Hans Christian Andersen
  • Toman a lesní panna, Op. 40 (Toman and the Wood Nymph, 1906–07)
  • Pan for solo piano, Op. 43 (1910)
  • De Profundis, Op. 67 (1941)
  • Three Symphonic Poems, Op. 17
    • 1. Beatrice (1903)
    • 2. Nina and Pergolesi (1905)
    • 3. The Death of Helena (1915)
  • Asgaardsreien, Op. 10 (1878, rev before 1910)
  • Alfedans, Op. 14 (ca.1880)
  • Pohádka o Šemíku, Op. 3 (Tale of Šemík, 1899)
  • Léto, Op. 23 (Summer, 1927)
  • The Tempest, Op. 31 (ca.1876, after Shakespeare)
  • Poseidon and Amphitrite, Op. 44 (ca.1888)
  • Lincoln (ca.1904-06, incomplete)
  • From Death to Life (1914, retitled as "Symphonic Poem in 2 connected movements")
  • Volker for violin and piano, Op. 203 (1876)
  • Dithyramb (1909, revised by Kurt Atterberg in 1948)
  • Ett Midsommarstycke (A Midsummer Piece, 1910)
  • En Höstsång (An Autumn Song, 1911)
  • Havet Sjunger (Song of the Sea, 1913)
  • Bebek Efsanesi, symphonic poem for orchestra
  • Karagöz
  • Denizciler Marşı Başlayış
  • Çağrılış
  • Fatih
  • Türkiye (1971)
  • Ellinci Yıla Giriş
  • Fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome), P 106 (1916); part I of Respighi's Roman Trilogy
  • Ballata delle gnomidi (Ballad of the Gnomes), P 124 (1919)
  • 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
  • Wallenstein, Op. 10 (1866-68, also his Symphony No. 1)
  • La Menace, Op. 9 (1908)
  • Evocations, Op. 15 (1910-11)
  • Elpénor, Op. 59 (1937)
  • Faust, Op. 68 (1864)
  • Ivan the Terrible, Op. 79 (1869)
  • Don Quixote, Op. 87 (1870)
  • La Noche Oscura, Op. 25 (The Dark Night, 1899)
  • Idylle mystique, Op. 30 (1900-01)
  • Gethsemani, Op 42 (1908)
  • 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)
  • Forest (1948)
  • Rotative for three pianos, winds and percussion (1929)
  • Herbstfeier, Op. 44
  • Légende Symphonique (1907)
  • Morocco (1927)
  • Im Ringen um ein Ideal, Op. 66 (1916)
  • Disaster at Sea (1933, rev 1935 as "Neptune")
  • Tonstück, Op. 102
  • Folge von heiteren stücke, Op. 130
  • From Karl Marx to Our Own Days for solo voices, chorus and orchestra (1932)
  • The Execution of Stepan Razin, Op. 119 (1964)
  • October, Op. 131 (1967)

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

  1. Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of the Island (1895, revised 1897 and 1939) *
  2. The Swan of Tuonela (1893-1895, revised 1897 and 1900) *
  3. Lemminkäinen in Tuonela (1895, revised 1897 and 1939) *
  4. Lemminkäinen's Return (1895, revised 1897 and 1900) *
  • Richard III, Op. 11/JB 1:70 (1857–58)
  • Valdštýnův tábor (Wallenstein's Camp), Op. 14/JB 1:72 (1858–59)
  • Hakon Jarl, Op. 16/JB 1:79 (1860–61)
  • Má vlast (My Homeland), JB 1:112 (1874–79); a cycle of six symphonic poems
  1. Vyšehrad (The High Castle)
  2. Vltava (The Moldau)
  3. Šárka
  4. Z českých luhů a hájů (From Bohemia's Woods and Fields)
  5. Tábor
  6. Blaník
  • Darkness and Dawn, Op. 5 (1901)
  • The Djinns (1911)
  • The Golden Age, Op.40 (Cycle of five symphonic poems, 1916)
  • Vision of Isaiah, Op. 58 (1927)
  • Credo, Op. 85 (1941)
  • Triumph and peace for solo organ, Op. 88 (1942)
  • The Apostle, Op. 92 (1944)

Charlotte Sohy

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  • Danse mystique, Op. 19 (Mystic dance, 1922)

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

  • Dance of the Dead, Op.11 (1878)
  • Darkness, Op.13 (1879)
  • Spring (ca.1879, lost)
  • Undine, Op. 14 (1882-83)
  • On the Ocean (1892, lost)
  • The Night (four symphonic poems, 1913)
  • To the Fields (1913, rev 1937)
  • Le Roi Arthur (King Arthur, 1890-91, rev 1915-6)
  • Une Vie d'Artiste (An Artist's life, 1919)
  • The Voyage (The Journey, 1929)
  • Praga, Op. 26 (1904)
  • Pohádka Léta, Op. 29 (A Summer's Tale, 1908–09)
  • Ripening, Op. 34 (1912–17)
  • Cycle of Symphonic Poems from Czech History (1915–17)
  • Hades, Op. 10 (1932)
  • Daybreak in the Field (Symphonic Picture, 1949)
  • Daugava (1952)
  • Azov Mountain, Op.10
  • The Red Guelder-Rose
  • Manfred, after Byron (c1862-63, lost)
  • Der Triumph der Liebe (c1862-63, only 1 page survives)
  • The Dream of Stepan Razin (1949)
  • The Hero's Exploit (1957, later renamed as "Poem No. 2")
  • Lights in the Steppe (1958, later renamed as "Poem No. 1")
  • Poem on Peace (1962)
  • Apothéoses de l'océan (circa 1905, lost)
  • Bourgogne (circa 1908, lost)
  • Gargantua (lost)
  • Les djinns, Op. 35 for soprano and orchestra (1912)
  • Psyché, Op. 33 for soprano and orchestra (1914)
  • Éros, Op. 37 for soprano and orchestra (1916)
  • Saul en David, Op. 24 (1906)
  • Elverhoï, Op. 48 (1940)
  • Im Sommerwind (actually 'Idyll after B. Wille', 1904)
  • Symphonic Poem, Op. 6 (1941)
  • Morning-Red, Op. 60 (1957)
  • The Banners of Peace, Op. 143 (1986)
  • König Lear, Op. 20 (King Lear, 1895)
  • Das Gefilde der Seligen, Op. 21 (Fields of the Blessed, 1892)
  • La Burla, Op. 78 (a.k.a The Tempest)
  • Frühling, Op. 80
  • Godzilla Eats Las Vegas (for winds, 1996)
  • La Nuit de Walpurgis, Op. 60 (1887)
  • Three Bloody Battles (1899-1900, after Tolstoy)
  • The Garden of Death, Op. 12 (1907-08, based on Wilde's The Canterville Ghost
  • Sappho, Op.14 (1909)
  • Hyrcus Nocturnus, Op 15 (1908–09, Flight of the Witches)
  • Au soleil, Op 17 (In the Rays of the Sun, 1910-11)
  • Inês de Castro ("Overture", 1886)
  • Invocação dos Lusíadas, Op. 19 (1897)
  • Summer Night and Sunrise, Op. 19 (1918)
  • Penthesilea (1883–85)
  • Mannin Veen: Dear Isle of Man (1933)
  • The Dark Gate (1913, inspired by a poem by Rofu Miki)
  • Flower of Mandala (1913, inspired by a poem by Kazo Saito)

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