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While many symphonic poems may compare in size and scale to symphonic movements (or even reach the length of an entire symphony), they are unlike traditional classical symphonic movements, in that their music is intended to inspire listeners to imagine or consider scenes, images, specific ideas or moods, and not (necessarily) to focus on following traditional patterns of musical form such as ...
At age 17, he wrote Mon Âme, a long poem published three years later in Le Gaulois. By 1896, he had commenced editing his long poem La Doublure when he suffered a mental crisis. After the poem was published on 10 June 1897 and was completely unsuccessful, Roussel began to see the psychiatrist Pierre Janet. In subsequent years, his inherited ...
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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)
Albert Roussel. Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ ʃaʁl pɔl maʁi ʁusɛl]; 5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer.He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period.
The Romantic era of Western Classical music spanned the 19th century to the early 20th century, encompassing a variety of musical styles and techniques. Part of the broader Romanticism movement of Europe, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gioachino Rossini and Franz Schubert are often seen as the dominant transitional figures composers from the preceding Classical era.
From the tone poem the composer quoted its most memorable passages in the opera, including the opening theme of the swelling sea, [3] and other themes as leitmotifs [4] – he himself set out to "utilize for this opera the material of my symphonic poem, and, in any event, to make use of its motives as leading motives for the opera".
A Pagan Poem; Pan and Syrinx; Pastorale d'été (Honegger) Pelleas und Melisande (Schoenberg) Phaethon (composition) Pilgrims and Pioneers; The Poem of Ecstasy; Poema del Iguazú; Polonia (Elgar) Popol Vuh (Ginastera) Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; Proceed, Moon