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List Of Symphonic Poems
This is a list of some notable composers who wrote symphonic poems. Mily Balakirev *''Russia'' (Second Overture on Russian Themes) *''In Bohemia'' (Overture on Czech Themes) *''Tamara'' Béla Bartók *'' Kossuth'' (1903) Arnold Bax * ''Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan'' (1905) * ''Into the Twilight'' (1908) * '' In the Faëry Hills'' (1909) * ''Rosc-catha'' (1910) * ''Christmas Eve'' (1912, r. 1921) * ''Nympholept'' (1912, orch. 1915, r. 1935) * ''The Garden of Fand'' (1913, orch. 1916) * ''Spring Fire'' (1913) * ''In Memoriam'' (1916) * ''November Woods'' (1917) * ''Tintagel'' (1917, orch. 1919) * ''Summer Music'' (1917, orch. 1921, r. 1932) * '' The Happy Forest'' (1922) * ''The Tale the Pine Trees Knew'' (1931) * ''Northern Ballad'' No. 1 (1927) * ''Northern Ballad'' No. 2 (1934) * ''Prelude for a Solemn Occasion'' (''Northern Ballad'' No. 3) (1927, orch. 1933) * ''A Legend'' (1944) Hector Berlioz * ''Chasse royale et orage'' Alexander Borodin * ''In the Steppes of Central Asi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symphonic Poem
A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other (non-musical) source. The German term ''Tondichtung (tone poem)'' appears to have been first used by the composer Carl Loewe in 1828. The Hungarian composer Franz Liszt first applied the term ''Symphonische Dichtung'' to his 13 works in this vein. While many symphonic poems may compare in size and scale to symphonic movements (or even reach the length of an entire symphony), they are unlike traditional classical symphonic movements, in that their music is intended to inspire listeners to imagine or consider scenes, images, specific ideas or moods, and not (necessarily) to focus on following traditional patterns of musical form such as sonata form. This intention to inspire listeners was a direct consequence of Romanticism, which encouraged literary, pictorial and dramatic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Debussy
(Achille) Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at the age of ten to France's leading music college, the Conservatoire de Paris. He originally studied the piano, but found his vocation in innovative composition, despite the disapproval of the Conservatoire's conservative professors. He took many years to develop his mature style, and was nearly 40 when he achieved international fame in 1902 with the only opera he completed, '' Pelléas et Mélisande''. Debussy's orchestral works include ''Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune'' (1894), ''Nocturnes'' (1897–1899) and ''Images'' (1905–1912). His music was to a considerable extent a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Noon Witch
''The Noon Witch'' (or ''The Noonday Witch''; cs, Polednice), Op. 108, B. 196, is a symphonic poem written in 1896 by Antonín Dvořák which was inspired by the Karel Jaromír Erben poem ''Polednice'' from the collection ''Kytice''. ''Polednice'' is based on the noon demon "Lady Midday" of Slavic mythology. It is one of a set of late orchestral works inspired by national themes which were written after his return to his native Bohemia from the United States. "Lady Midday" Synopsis A mother warns her son that if he does not behave she will summon the Noon Witch to take him away. He does not behave, and the witch arrives at the stroke of noon. The witch, described as a horrible creature, demands the child. The mother, terrified that the witch has actually come, grabs her son, and the witch begins chasing them. Finally the mother faints, grasping her child. Later that day, the father arrives home, and finds his wife passed out with the dead body of their son in her arms. The mot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Water Goblin
''The Water Goblin'' ( cs, Vodník; initially published by N. Simrock with the English title ''The Water-Fay'') is a symphonic poem, Op. 107 (B. 195), written by Antonín Dvořák in 1896. The source of inspiration for ''The Water Goblin'' was a poem found in a collection published by Karel Jaromír Erben under the title ''Kytice''. Four of the six symphonic poems that Dvořák composed were inspired by works of poetry found in that collection. Poem Vodník tells a story in four parts of a mischievous water goblin who traps drowning souls in upturned teacups. #A water goblin is sitting on a poplar by the lake, singing to the moon and sewing a green coat and red boots for his wedding soon to come. #A mother tells her daughter of a dream she had about clothing her daughter in white robes ''swirling like foaming water'' and with pearls of ''tears hiding deep distress'' around her neck. She feels this dream was a presentiment and warns her daughter not to go to the lake. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravian traditional music, Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era Czech nationalism, nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana. Dvořák's style has been described as "the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them". Dvořák displayed his musical gifts at an early age, being an apt violin student from age six. The first public performances of his works were in Prague in 1872 and, with special success, in 1873, when he was 31 years old. Seeking recognition beyond the Prague area, he submitted a score of his Symphony No. 1 (Dvořák), First Symphony to a prize competition in Germany, but did not win, and the unreturned manuscript was lost until it was rediscovered many decades ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. He is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language, his work having a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day.. Goethe took up residence in Weimar in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, ''The Sorrows of Young Werther'' (1774). He was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August, in 1782. Goethe was an early participant in the ''Sturm und Drang'' literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe became a member of the Duke's privy council (1776–1785), sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas)
''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' (french: L'Apprenti sorcier) is a symphonic poem by the French composer Paul Dukas, completed in 1897. Subtitled "Scherzo after a ballad by Goethe", the piece was based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1797 poem of the same name. By far the most performed and recorded of Dukas' works, its notable appearance in the Walt Disney 1940 animated film ''Fantasia'' has led to the piece becoming widely known to audiences outside the classical concert hall. Its first performance was given in Paris on May 18, 1897. The composer himself was its conductor. Analysis Description Inspired by the Goethe poem, Dukas's work is part of the larger Romantic genre of programmatic music, which composers like Franz Liszt, Claude Debussy, Jean Sibelius and Richard Strauss increasingly explored as an alternative to earlier symphonic forms. Unlike other tone poems, such as '' La mer'' by Debussy or ''Finlandia'' by Sibelius, Dukas's work is, like works such as ''Till Eulens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Dukas
Paul Abraham Dukas ( or ; 1 October 1865 – 17 May 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, having abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions. His best-known work is the orchestral piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas), ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' (''L'apprenti sorcier''), the fame of which has eclipsed that of his other surviving works. Among these are the opera ''Ariane et Barbe-bleue'', his Symphony in C (Dukas), Symphony in C and Piano Sonata (Dukas), Piano Sonata in E-flat minor, the ''Variations, Interlude and Finale on a Theme by Rameau'' (for solo piano), and a ballet, ''La Péri (Dukas), La Péri''. At a time when French musicians were divided into conservative and progressive factions, Dukas adhered to neither but retained the admiration of both. His compositions were influenced by composers including Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Berlioz, César ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Song Of Summer
''A Song of Summer'' is a tone poem for orchestra by Frederick Delius, completed in 1931. ''A Song of Summer'' derived from an unpublished 1918 symphonic work, originally called ''Poem of Life and Love''.Robert Anderson, Review of "The Fenby Legacy" (1982). ''The Musical Times'', 123 (1669): p. 189. In 1921, Delius told Peter Warlock that he had misplaced most of that score.Robert Anderson, "Also-Rans?" (1998). ''The Musical Times'', 139 (1860): p. 33. Delius resumed work on this composition after becoming blind, dictating the notes to his amanuensis, Eric Fenby. Sir Henry J. Wood conducted the premiere in London on 17 September 1931. The first recording was made by John Barbirolli with the Hallé Orchestra on 4 February 1950. Fenby himself also recorded the score, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a recording released in 1981 Delius explained the context of the tone poem to Fenby by saying: "I want you to imagine we are sitting on the cliffs of heather and looking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eventyr (Once Upon A Time)
''Eventyr (Once Upon a Time)'' is a tone poem for orchestra composed by Frederick Delius in 1917. It was given its premiere in London on 11 January 1919, under the direction of Henry Wood. "Eventyr" means "adventure", and the inspiration for the piece was a fairy tale from Norway. After a twenty-bar introduction, a fantastic theme is played first by the bassoons and then by the other woodwinds. The second subject is presented by the strings and gains in intensity with the addition of another subject in counterpoint. Several climactic moments follow before the creation of a fairy world, dominated by a descending chromatic theme for strings, celesta, and harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche .... The piece is concluded with the return of earlier material, followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring
''On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring'' is a tone poem composed in 1912 by Frederick Delius. Together with ''Summer Night on the River'' it is one of Delius's ''Two Pieces for Small Orchestra''. The two were first performed in Leipzig on 23 October 1913, conducted by Arthur Nikisch.''On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring'' is the longer of the two pieces, with a typical playing time of between six and seven minutes. There have been numerous recordings of the piece, which Delius's champion Sir Thomas Beecham described as much the best known of the composer's works. Background and first performance In the first years of the 20th century Frederick Delius was better known in Continental Europe than in his native Britain. He lived in France and had most of his musical success in Germany.McVeagh, Diana"Delius, Frederick Theodor Albert (1862–1934)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004. Hadley Patrick"Delius, Frederick" ''Dictionary of National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Song Of A Great City
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