Examples
- Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky depicts an imaginary tour of an art collection
- Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg was composed as incidental music to an Ibsen play but is often performed on its own
- Mephisto Waltz no. 1 by Franz Liszt
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