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symphonic poem
symphonic poem type of orchestral composition created by Liszt, also called tone poem. Discarding classical principles of form, it begins with a poetic or other literary inspiration. Although it is usually considered program music , no literal following of a program was intended by Liszt. His Tas... Read more
Paul Dukas
Paul Dukas , 1865-1935, French composer and critic. He was influenced by both the romanticism of Wagner and the impressionism of Debussy. His compositions are few, the best known being a symphonic poem, The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1897), and an opera, Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (1907). ... Read more
Ernest Bloch
Ernest Bloch , 1880-1959, Swiss-American composer. Among his teachers were Jaques-Dalcroze and Ysaÿe. He taught at the Geneva Conservatory, 1911-15, and at the Mannes School, New York, 1917-19; he was director of the Cleveland Institute of Music, 1920-25, and of the San Francisco Conservatory, ... Read more
Francesca da Rimini
Francesca da Rimini , fl. 13th cent., Italian beauty, daughter of Guido da Polenta of Ravenna. She was married by proxy to the hunchbacked lord of Rimini, Gianciotto Malatesta; the proxy, Gianciotto's young and handsome brother Paolo, became Francesca's lover. Gianciotto, discovering their guilt, ki... Read more
Mili Alekseyevich Balakirev
Mili Alekseyevich Balakirev , 1837-1910, Russian composer and conductor, leader of the group called the Five . He founded (1862) the Free School of Music in St. Petersburg and conducted (1867-69) the Russian Music Society and (1883-94) the Imperial Chapel Choir and Imperial Music Society. His works... Read more
Albert Roussel
Albert Roussel , 1869-1937, French composer, studied with Vincent D'Indy. His early works show the influence of impressionism. With the symphonic poem Pour une fête de printemps (1920) and his Second Symphony (1919-21) he achieved a highly personal style marked by subtlety of melodic inflect... Read more
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Louis Moreau Gottschalk , 1829-69, American pianist and composer, b. New Orleans, of English-French parentage, studied in Paris. Chopin and Berlioz praised his playing, and he appeared successfully in Europe, the United States, and South America. His orchestral compositions include two symphonic poe... Read more
Ottorino Respighi
Ottorino Respighi , 1879-1936, Italian composer, studied with Rimsky-Korsakov and Max Bruch. He was director (1924-25) of the Conservatory of St. Cecilia, Rome, afterward teaching advanced composition there until his death. Among his romantic symphonic poems are The Fountains of Rome (1917), The ... Read more
Alan Hovhaness
Alan Hovhaness , 1911-2000, American composer, b. Somerville, Mass., as Alan Vaness Chakmakjian. Hovhaness was of Armenian and Scottish descent, and many of his works are based on Armenian culture or show influences from Middle Eastern, Asian, or early European music. Inspired by nature and Christia... Read more
Charles Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles Camille Saint-Saëns , 1835-1921, French composer. A child prodigy, he made his debut as a pianist at 10 and entered the Paris Conservatory in 1848. He was a prolific composer, writing in almost every form, and he was organist at the Madeleine for 20 years. Saint-Saëns is best known... Read more

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symphonic poem
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition symphonic poem type of orchestral composition...compositions of this sort. Although the symphonic poem better expressed the spirit of romanticism...k, wrote in both forms. In the symphonic poems of Smetana and Sibelius an element...
tone poem
Book article from: World Encyclopedia tone poem See symphonic poem
Bedřich Smetana
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...national music, is most known for his symphonic poems and operas. His music combines a strong symphonic technique with melodic and rhythmic ideas...While there he wrote his first important symphonic poems, including Wallenstein's Camp...
Richard Strauss
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the development of the 19th-century symphonic poem, and was a leading composer of romantic...Liszt and Wagner . A group of songs, the symphonic fantasy Aus Italien (1886), and the symphonic poems Don Juan (1888) and Death and Transfiguration...
Franz Liszt
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...piano, also inaugurated the symphonic poem and was an innovator in style...piano concertos and all of his symphonic poems are multisectional rather than...piano and orchestra, and the symphonic poems Tasso, Les Pr é...
Ernest Bloch
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...quality, as in the Hebrew rhapsody Schelomo and the symphonic poem Israel (both 1916). Other outstanding works are...grosso, for string orchestra and piano (1925); the symphonic poems America (1926) and Helvetia (1929); a modern...
John Knowles Paine
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...He died on April 25, 1905, while at work on a symphonic poem dealing with Abraham Lincoln. Paine was one of the...fondness for program music. He wrote a number of symphonic poems based on Shakespeare and an overture to As You Like...
Gian Francesco Malipiero
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...respected and prolific composers. Aside from his own symphonic, operatic, vocal and chamber music compositions...Malipiero wrote more than 25 operas, 4 ballets, 15 symphonic poems, 9 symphonies, 4 piano concertos, a violin concerto...
Gustav Holst
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...large-scale, brilliantly orchestrated series of tone poems devoted to seven of the planets: Mars, Venus, Mercury...Stravinsky turned to neoclassic ideals, composers who wrote symphonic poems and folk-based choral pieces were considered old...
programme music
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...perhaps the earliest example from this time is Beethoven's 6th Symphony (“The Pastoral”). Symphonic poems by Bedřich Smetana and Jean Sibelius are later instances. See also Romanticism

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symphonic poem
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...translated as ‘tone-poem’, but it has been...suggested that ‘sound-poem’ comes nearer to...20th-cent. composers wrote symphonic poems though they did not always...for what are in effect 3 symphonic poems, Froissart , Cockaigne...
poem
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music poem. Literary term introduced into music by Liszt with the expression ‘symphonic poem’ to apply to his narrative orch...individual works bearing this title are the Poem by Fibich , a movt. from his orch. serenade...
tone-poem
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music tone-poem. See symphonic poem .
symphonic study
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music symphonic study. Term used by various composers in different...symphoniques ; Elgar applied the term to his sym.-poem Falstaff , presumably to show that it was an...Rawsthorne described an orch. set of variations as Symphonic Studies.
Liszt, Ferencz
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...his Faust and Dante syms., 12 symphonic poems, and much else. From 1860 Liszt...in a category of their own, the symphonic poems developed a new art-form...choral Magnificat as last movt.).SYMPHONIC-POEMS: Ce qu'on entend sur...
Smetana, Bedřich
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...Phil. Soc. Visited Liszt in Weimar and comp. 3 symphonic poems on Lisztian lines, incl. Wallenstein's Camp...disease. Over next 5 years comp. his cycle of 6 symphonic poems Má Vlast (My Country) and in 1876 wrote...
metamorphosis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...yet preserve its essential and recognizable characteristics. Employed by Liszt in his symphonic poems and by Elgar and Franck in syms. Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Weber and Britten's 6 Metamorphoses after Ovid are modern...
Respighi, Ottorino
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...colours of Rimsky-Korsakov and Strauss, and his symphonic poems are notable for their brilliant and luscious scoring...1925); Vetrate di Chiesa (Church Windows), 4 symphonic impressions (1925); Impressione brasiliane , sym...
Brott, Alexander
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Brott, Alexander ( b Montreal, 1915). Canadian violinist, conductor, and composer. Leader, McGill Qt., Les Concerts Symphoniques, etc. Comps. incl. vn. conc. (1950), symphonic suite From Sea to Sea (1947), symphonic poems, and chamber mus.
symphony
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...as an antidote to the growing craze for Lisztian symphonic poems and the operas of Wagner (who wrote only one early...In Sibelius, especially in the 4th and 7th syms., symphonic thought and processes are elliptical and pared to essentials...

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Magazine article from: Strings; 8/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...elegiac minor to bright major. His Symphonic Poem "Salome," supposedly...concertos and 35 operettas. His Symphonic Poem, "Hero and Leander" is very...orchestral works, including four Symphonic Poems, recorded on their own release...
Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 3.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Sensible Sound; 8/1/2007; ; 604 words ; Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 3. Michael...Liszt wrote thirteen tone poems, and conductor Michael...material, containing the poems Festlange, Ce qu'on entend...festive overture more than a symphonic poem, but appropriate for getting...
Dvorak: Slavonic Dances; Overtures; Symphonic Poems.
Magazine article from: Sensible Sound; 12/1/2002; 494 words ; ...Othello"--plus the symphonic poem "The Water Goblin...three gives us three more poems--"The Noonday Witch...Wood Dove"--plus the Symphonic Variations on an Original...especially liked the tone poems for their impressionistic...
`WOOD NYMPH' SYMPHONIC POEM Orchestra records Sibelius' `lost' work
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 1/16/1996; ; 412 words ; ...Lahti Symphony Orchestra. The "Wood Nymph," a symphonic poem, was discovered late last year at the Helsinki University...Nymph" is longer than Sibelius' last symphony. Symphonic poems generally are shorter that symphonies. "I think...
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Magazine article from: Fanfare; 7/1/2008; ; 678 words ; ...SVETLANOV Symphony No. 1. Poem.3 The Red Guelder-Rose...Concerto in c.1,2 Preludes, "Symphonic Reflections." 3 Russian Songs...in the Second Rhapsody. His symphonic poems are vibrantly orchestrated...takes the solo part in the Poem for violin and orchestra...
DISCS: CLASSICAL HHHHH Liszt Symphonic Poems Vol I - BBC Philharmonic/ Noseda CHANDOS
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 9/11/2005; ; 291 words ; ...revamped Manchester Camerata, Gianandrea Noseda has galvanised the BBC Philharmonic. Their first volume of Liszt's Symphonic Poems is rich in imagery, rapt of sound, and synaesthetic in effect " a beautifully controlled recording. The conclusion...
`SYMPHONIC POEM' CELEBRATES LIFE, WORK OF AMINAH ROBINSON
Newspaper article from: Call & Post; 12/18/2002; 700+ words ; Symphonic Poem: The Art of Aminah Robinson," a major retrospective exhibition that...and at the same time, a spiritual essence not easily identified. "Symphonic Poem" is an all-encompassing term Robinson has coined to describe all...
John Puccio reviews ...(THE MUSIC)(Ades: Piano Quintet, Schubert: "Trout" Quintet)(Barber: Adagio for Strings, Violin Concerto, Orchestral and Chamber Works)(Bax: Symphonic Poems)(Bruckner: Symphony No. 5)(Concerto Veneziano)(de Falla: El Sombrero de Tres Picos, El Amor Brujo, Danza from La Vida Breve)(Dvorak: Tone Poems)(Grieg: Peer Gynt)(Mahler: Symphony No. 6)(Mendelssohn: Italian and Reformation Symphonies)(Monty Python's Spamalot. A CD Lovingly Ripped Off from the New Musical, Original Broadway Cast Recording)(Mozart: Requiem)(Sound Recording Review)
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Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/5/1998; ; 456 words ; This record is of twofold interest. First it represents a rare recording by the Finnish conductor and master-teacher of conducting, Jorma Panula, who will be in residence at Tanglewood this summer. Second, it is one of the very few recordings of Sibelius's first masterpiece, "Kullervo" -- a Finnish
Rachmaninoff's "Symphonic Dances." (poem)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 5/2/1994; ; 366 words ; Yearning, pure and simple. For what, where, whom remaining abstract, only the melody, romantic, sad as now the reminiscence of having heard it long ago in a room that opened out into the bay, the city lights below, thinking then as now of so much that we desire; as then, as I sat listening I