List of Symphonic Poems

List Of Symphonic Poems

This is a list of some notable symphonic poems.

Béla Bartók

• Kossuth (1903)

Arnold Bax

• Tintagel
• The Garden of Fand
• November Woods
• Happy Forest

Alexander Borodin

• In the Steppes of Central Asia (actually 'Musical Picture'; 1880)

George Whitefield Chadwick

• Symphonic Sketches

Ernest Chausson

• Viviane

Claude Debussy

• Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)
• La Mer (The Sea)

Frederick Delius

• A Song of Summer
• Eventyr (Once Upon a Time)
• On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring (actually the first of 'Two Pieces for Small Orchestra; 1912)

Paul Dukas

• L'apprenti-sorcier ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice") (actually 'Symphonic Scherzo after Goethe; 1897)

Antonín Dvořák

• The Water Goblin, Op. 107
• The Noon Witch, Op. 108
• The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op. 109
• The Wild Dove, Op. 110
• A Hero's Song, Op. 111

Edward Elgar

• Cockaigne
• In the South

George Enescu

• Vox maris

Lorenzo Ferrero

• La nueva España - Suite of 6 Symphonic Poems (1992–1999)

César Franck

• Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Huntsman)

George Gershwin

• An American in Paris (actually 'Tone Poem'; 1928)
• Cuban Overture

Ferde Grofé

• Knute Rockne
• Trylon and Perisphere
• Atlantic Crossing

Percy Grainger

• Train Music

Karl Amadeus Hartmann

• Miserae (1933–34, previously titled Symphony No. 1)

Lee Holdridge

• Scenes of Summer (September/October 1973)

Gustav Holst

• Egdon Heath

Arthur Honegger

• Pacific 231

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

• Liszt's symphonic poems:
  • Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne, (1848-9) (after Victor Hugo)
  • Tasso: lamento e trionfo, (1849) (after Byron)
  • Les Préludes, after Lamartine (1848, rev. before 1854)
  • Orpheus, (1853-4)
  • Prometheus, (1850)
  • Mazeppa, (1851)
  • Festklänge, (1853)
  • Héroïde funèbre, (1849–50)
  • Hungaria, (1854)
  • Hamlet, (1858)
  • Hunnenschlacht, (1857)
  • Die Ideale (1857) (after Schiller)
  • Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (1881-2)

Frederik Magle

• Cantabile suite - 3 symphonic poems (2004–09)

Paul McCartney

• Standing Stone

Modest Mussorgsky

• Night on Bald Mountain

Carl Nielsen

• Saga-Drøm (1908)
• Pan and Syrinx (1918)

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

• Brazilian Impressions
• The Roman trilogy, The Pines of Rome, The Fountains of Rome, and Roman Festivals

Silvestre Revueltas

• Sensemaya

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

• Night on Mount Triglav
• Sadko (Symphonic Picture)
• Shéhérazade

Camille Saint-Saëns

• Le Rouet d'Omphale, op.31
• Phaéton, op. 39
• Danse macabre, Op.40
• La Jeunesse d'Hercule, Op.50

Arnold Schoenberg

• Verklärte Nacht, Op.4
• Pelleas und Melisande, Op.5

Alexander Scriabin

• The Poem of Ecstasy, Op.54 (1905)
• Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60 (1910)

Dmitri Shostakovich

• October, Op. 131 (1967)

Jean Sibelius

• Kullervo, symphony for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra, Op. 7 (1892)
• En Saga, tone poem for orchestra, Op. 9 (1892)
• Rakastava (The Lover) for male voices and strings or strings and percussion, Op. 14 (1893/1911)
• Lemminkäinen Suite (Four Legends from the Kalevala), Op. 22 (1893)
• Skogsrået (The Wood Nymph), tone poem, Op. 15 (1894)
• Spring Song (Vårsång), Op. 16 (1894)
• Sandels, improvisation for chorus and orchestra, Op. 28 (1898)
• Finlandia for orchestra and chorus (optional), Op. 26 (1899)
• Pohjolan tytär (Pohjola's Daughter), tone poem, Op. 49 (1906)
• Nightride and Sunrise, tone poem, Op. 55 (1909)
• Dryadi (The Dryad), Op. 45/1 (1910)
• Barden (The Bard), tone poem, Op. 64 (1913/1914)
• Luonnotar, tone poem for soprano and orchestra, Op. 70 (1913)
• The Oceanides (Aallottaret) (The Oceanides), tone poem, Op. 73 (1914)
• Oma Maa (Our Fatherland) for chorus and orchestra, Op. 92 (1918)
• Song of the Earth (Jordens sång) for chorus and orchestra, Op. 93 (1919)
• Väinö's song (Väinön virsi) for chorus and orchestra, Op. 110 (1926)
• Tapiola, tone poem, Op. 112 (1926)

Bedřich Smetana

• Má vlast, a cycle of six symphonic poems including the famous Vltava

Richard Strauss - one of the most prolific in the genre. He preferred the appellation "tone poem".

• Aus Italien
• Don Juan
• Death and Transfiguration
• Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
• Also sprach Zarathustra
• Don Quixote
• Ein Heldenleben
• Symphonia Domestica
• Eine Alpensinfonie
• Macbeth, Op. 23 (1888)

Josef Suk

• Pohádka léta, Op.29 (A Summer's Tale)

Igor Stravinsky

• Le Chant du Rossignol

Sergei Taneyev

• Oresteia (labeled as an "overture", but really a symphonic poem based on themes from his opera of the same name)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

• Fatum (1868)
• Francesca da Rimini (actually 'Symphonic Fantasia after Dante'; 1876)
• The Tempest (actually 'Symphonic Fantasia after Shakespeare'; 1873)

Geirr Tveitt

• Nykken

Johan Wagenaar

• Saul en David

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)