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Symphony in Yellow: song 1912 Griffes wrote a setting of this in c. 1912, as No. 2 of his Tone-Images, Op. 3 (No. 1 was also a Wilde setting, La Fuite de la Lune; and No. 3 was a poem by W. E. Henley). [3]
A holograph manuscript of an early version of "The Harlot's House", dated April 1882, is preserved in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles.The final version of the poem was, according to Wilde's friend and biographer Robert Sherard, written in the spring of 1883 while the author was staying at the Hôtel Voltaire in Paris, and this account is probably accurate.
A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other (non-musical) source.
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 Johanna Senfter
Charles Tomlinson Griffes (US: / ˈ ɡ r ɪ f ə s / GRIFF-fiss; September 17, 1884 – April 8, 1920) was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and voice.His initial works are influenced by German Romanticism, but after he relinquished the German style, [2] his later works make him the most famous American representative of musical Impressionism, along with Charles Martin Loeffler.
Tintagel is a symphonic poem by Arnold Bax. It is his best-known work, and was for some years the only piece by which the composer was known to many concert-goers. The work was inspired by a visit Bax made to Tintagel Castle in Cornwall in 1917, and, although not explicitly programmatic, draws on the history and mythology associated with the ...
A Symphony for Our Times: 2015: Written for the closing performance of the World Economic Forum 2015 meeting. Gustav Mahler: 1: D major: Der Titan: Titan: 1884-88, rev 1892: Initially conceived as a symphonic poem 2: C minor: Auferstehung: Resurrection: 1888-94: 6: A minor: Tragische: Tragic: 1903-04: 7: Lied der Nacht: Song of the Night: 1904 ...
The Green Eye of the Yellow God, a 1911 poem by J. Milton Hayes, is a famous example of the genre of "dramatic monologue", a music hall staple in the early twentieth century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The piece was written for and performed by actor and monologist Bransby Williams .