Symphonic Poems (Liszt) - List of Works

List of Works

In chronological order the symphonic poems are as follows, though the published numbering differs as shown:

• No. 1 Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne, after Victor Hugo (1848–49; originally orchestrated by Joachim Raff, third orchestral version by Liszt, 1854)
• No. 3 Les préludes, after Lamartine (1848) based on the prelude to the cantata Les quatre elements (1845)
• No. 2 Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo, after Byron (1849 from earlier sketches, orchestrated by August Conradi and Raff; expanded and orchestrated by Liszt, 1854)
• No. 5 Prometheus (1850, originally overture to Choruses from Herder's Prometheus Unbound)
• No. 8 Héroïde funèbre (1849–50) (based on the first movement of the unfinished Revolutionary Symphony of 1830)
• No. 6 Mazeppa, after Victor Hugo (1851)
• No. 7 Festklänge (Festal Sounds) (1853)
• No. 4 Orpheus (1853–4)
• No. 9 Hungaria (1854)
• No. 11 Hunnenschlacht (Battle of the Huns), after the painting by Kaulbach (1856–7)
• No. 12 Die Ideale, after the poem by Schiller (1857)
• No. 10 Hamlet, after the drama by Shakespeare (1858)
• No. 13 Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (From the Cradle to the Grave) (1881–2)