List of symphonic poems

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This is a list of some notable composers who wrote symphonic poems.

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Hugo Alfvén

Frederic Austin

Edgar Bainton

Mily Balakirev

Béla Bartók

Arnold Bax

Paul Ben-Haim

Natanael Berg

Hector Berlioz

Franz Berwald

Adolphe Biarent

Arthur H. Bird

Ernest Bloch

Mel Bonis

Hjalmar Borgstrøm

Alexander Borodin

Sergei Bortkiewicz

Rutland Boughton

Lili Boulanger

York Bowen

Henry Brant

Havergal Brian

Frank Bridge

Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff

Alfred Bruneau

Ferrucio Busoni

Alfredo Casella

George Whitefield Chadwick

Ernest Chausson

Frederic Cliffe

James Cohn

Claude Debussy

Frederick Delius

  1. Summer Evening
  2. Winter Night (or, Sleigh Ride)
  3. Spring Morning
  1. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
  2. Summer Night on the River

Felix Draeseke

Paul Dukas

Henri Duparc

Antonín Dvořák

George Dyson

Edward Elgar

George Enescu

Óscar Esplá

Harry Farjeon

Lorenzo Ferrero

Zdeněk Fibich

Josef Bohuslav Foerster

César Franck

Arthur Friedheim

Edward German

George Gershwin

Ruth Gipps

Alexander Glazunov

Reinhold Glière

Karl Goldmark

Geoffrey Gordon

Eugene Aynsley Goossens

Percy Grainger

Čestmír Gregor

Ferde Grofé

Ernest Guiraud

Henry Kimball Hadley

Howard Hanson

Karl Amadeus Hartmann

Hamilton Harty

Alfred Hill

Joseph Holbrooke

Lee Holdridge

Augusta Holmès

Gustav Holst

Arthur Honegger

Alan Hovhaness

Airat Ichmouratov

Vincent d'Indy

John Ireland

Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

Jānis Ivanovs

Charles Ives

Zhu Jian'er

Dmitry Kabalevsky

Manolis Kalomiris

Artur Kapp

Sigfrid Karg-Elert

Mieczysław Karłowicz

Hugo Kaun

Paul von Klenau

Lev Knipper

Victor Kolar

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

László Lajtha

Artur Lemba

Franz Liszt

William Lloyd Webber

Sergei Lyapunov

Borys Lyatoshynsky

Edward MacDowell

Leevi Madetoja

Frederik Magle

Miguel Marqués

Bohuslav Martinů

John Blackwood McEwen

Erkki Melartin

Aarre Merikanto

Olivier Messiaen

Richard Mohaupt

Douglas Moore

Vano Muradeli

Modest Mussorgsky

Nikolai Myaskovsky

Carl Nielsen

Ludolf Nielsen

Zygmunt Noskowski

Vítězslav Novák

Feliks Nowowiejski

Ole Olsen

Otakar Ostrčil

John Knowles Paine

Hubert Parry

Florence Price

Henri Rabaud

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Joachim Raff

Osmo Tapio Räihälä

Ture Rangström

Max Reger

Cemal Reşit Rey

Ottorino Respighi

Silvestre Revueltas

Josef Gabriel Rheinberger

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Albert Roussel

Anton Rubinstein

Joseph Ryelandt

Camille Saint-Saëns

Vadim Salmanov

Giacinto Scelsi

Philipp Scharwenka

Ernest Schelling

Arnold Schoenberg

Georg Schumann

Cyril Scott

Alexander Scriabin

Johanna Senfter

Dmitri Shostakovich

Jean Sibelius

One of the most prolific (and significant) contributors to the genre; compositions marked with an asterisk were inspired by Finnish mythology:

  1. Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of the Island (1895, revised 1897 and 1939) *
  2. The Swan of Tuonela (1893-1895, revised 1897 and 1900) *
  3. Lemminkäinen in Tuonela (1895, revised 1897 and 1939) *
  4. Lemminkäinen's Return (1895, revised 1897 and 1900) *

Bedřich Smetana

  1. Vyšehrad (The High Castle)
  2. Vltava (The Moldau)
  3. Šárka
  4. Z českých luhů a hájů (From Bohemia's Woods and Fields)
  5. Tábor
  6. Blaník

David Stanley Smith

Charlotte Sohy

William Grant Still

Richard Strauss

One of the most prolific (and important) contributors to the genre. He preferred the term "tone poem," rather than "symphonic poem."

Igor Stravinsky

George Templeton Strong

Josef Suk

Heikki Suolahti

Evgeny Svetlanov

Sergei Taneyev

Karl Tausig

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Geirr Tveitt

Galina Ustvolskaya

Edgard Varèse

Louis Vierne

Johan Wagenaar

Richard Wagner

Anton Webern

Mieczysław Weinberg

Felix Weingartner

Eric Whitacre

Charles-Marie Widor

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Sergei Vasilenko

José Vianna da Motta

Adolf Wiklund

Hugo Wolf

Haydn Wood

Alexander von Zemlinsky

Kōsaku Yamada

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