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The Children of Lir (1938) Alfred Hill. The Lost Hunter (1945) ... Cycle of Symphonic Poems from Czech History (1915–17) Heikki Suolahti. Hades, Op. 10 (1932)
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.
Symphonic poems, concert overtures, suites, variations, operas, ballets, most vocal and choral music, and miscellaneous other works are normally given titles that exclude numbers. Examples of such works would include: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, symphonic poem by Richard Strauss; Tragic Overture by Brahms; Schelomo, Hebraic rhapsody by Bloch
Shock Diamonds (tone poem) Siegfried Idyll; Silent Spring (composition) Son et lumière (composition) A Song of Islands; The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) Stenka Razin (Glazunov) A Summer's Tale (Suk) Symphonic Sketches
The Water Goblin (Czech: Vodník; initially published by N. Simrock with the English title The Water-Fay) is a symphonic poem, Op. 107 (B. 195), written by Antonín Dvořák in 1896. The source of inspiration for The Water Goblin was a poem found in a collection published by Karel Jaromír Erben under the title Kytice. Four of the six symphonic ...
Le Rouet d'Omphale (The Spinning Wheel of Omphale or Omphale's Spinning Wheel), Op. 31, is a symphonic poem for orchestra, composed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1871. It is one of the most famous of the four symphonic poems in a mythological series by Saint-Saëns. The other three in the series are Danse macabre, Phaëton, and La jeunesse d'Hercule.
An American in Paris is a jazz-influenced symphonic poem (or tone poem) [1] for orchestra by American composer George Gershwin first performed in 1928. It was inspired by the time that Gershwin had spent in Paris and evokes the sights and energy of the French capital during the Années folles.
Stravinsky also wrote a reduction of the whole symphonic poem for solo piano. As opposed to the original four-movement version for orchestra finished in 1917, the version for solo piano consists of three movements, with the full original material intact but rearranged into different movement division. [ 5 ]