List of symphonic poems

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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

Arnold Bax

Hector Berlioz

  • Chasse royale et orage

Alexander Borodin

George Whitefield Chadwick

Ernest Chausson

Claude Debussy

Frederick Delius

Paul Dukas

Antonín Dvořák

Edward Elgar

George Enescu

Lorenzo Ferrero

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

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

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

Frederik Magle

Paul McCartney

Felix Mendelssohn

Richard Mohaupt

  • Town Piper Music (Stadtpfeifermusik) (1941)

Modest Mussorgsky

Carl Nielsen

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

Silvestre Revueltas

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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

Alexander Scriabin

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)
  1. Lemminkäinen ja saaren neidot (Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of the Island) (1895, r. 1897 and 1939)
  2. Tuonelan joutsen (The Swan of Tuonela) (1893-1895, r. 1897 and 1900)
  3. Lemminkäinen Tuonelassa (Lemminkäinen in Tuonela) (1895, r. 1897 and 1939)
  4. Lemminkäinen palaa kotitienoille (Lemminkäinen's Return) (1895, r. 1897 and 1900)

Bedřich Smetana

  1. Vyšehrad (The High Castle)
  2. Vltava (also known as Die Moldau)
  3. Šárka
  4. Z českých luhů a hájů (From Bohemia's woods and fields)
  5. Tábor
  6. Blaník

Richard Strauss

One of the most prolific in the genre. He preferred the concept "tone poem".

Josef Suk

Igor Stravinsky

Sergei Taneyev

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Geirr Tveitt

Johan Wagenaar

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