List of symphonic poems

• En skärgardssägen, Op. 20 (1903)

• Pompilia (1903)
• Paracelsus, Op. 8 (1904, after the poem by Robert Browning)
• Thalassa (1933, reworked into his Symphony No. 2 in D minor between 1939-40)

• Russia Second Overture on Russian Themes (1863–64, revised 1884)
• In Bohemia Overture on Czech Themes (1867, revised 1905)
• Tamara (1867–82)

• Kossuth (1903)

• 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)

• Pan for soprano and orchestra, Op. 13 (1931)
• Yizkor (Evocation) for violin and orchestra (1942)

• Chasse royale et orage from the Opera Les Troyens (1856–58)

• Slaget vid Leipzig (The Battle of Leipzig, 1828)
• Elfenspiel (Play of the Elves , 1841)
• Ernste und heitere Grillen (Serious and Merry Whims , 1842)
• Erinnerung an die norwegischen Alpen (Reminiscence of the Norwegian Mountains, 1842)
• Bayaderen-Fest (Festival of the Bayadères, 1842)
• Wettlauf (Racing, 1842)

• Trenmor (1905, after a legend from Ossian)

• Vivre-aimer (1900)
• Hiver-printemps (1904-05)
• Voice in the Wilderness (1936)

• In the Steppes of Central Asia (actually 'Musical Picture'; 1880)

• Othello, Op. 19 (1914)

• The Lament of Tasso, Op.5 (1902)
• Symphonic Fantasia, Op.16 (1905)

• Hero and Leander Op. 8 (1904–06, lost)
• Humorous Legend on Three Blind Mice (1908–09, withdrawn)
• In Memoriam (1910)
• Doctor Merryheart Comedy Overture No. 1 (1911-2)
• The Battle Song (sketched between 1930 and 1931, completed by John Pickard in 1997)
• Elegy (1954)

• Symphonisches Tongedicht, Op. 31a (1893)

• Pagine di Guerra for four-hand piano (1915, revised and orchestrated in 1918)
• A Notte Alta, Op. 30 for solo piano (1917, arranged for piano and orchestra in 1921)

• Symphonic Sketches (1895-1904)
• Cleopatra (1904)
• Aphrodite Symphonic Fantasy (1910–11)
• Tam o' Shanter, Symphonic Ballad (1914–15)
• Angel of Death (1917–18)

• Viviane (1882, rev 1887)

• Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune ( Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, 1891–94)
• La Mer (The Sea, 1903–05, rev 1908)

• Hiawatha (1887-8, completed by Robert Threlfall)
• Three Small Tone-poems, VI/7 (1890)

1. Summer Evening
2. Winter Night (or, Sleigh Ride)
3. Spring Morning

• Paa Vidderne (On the Mountains), VI/10 (1890–92)
• Over the Hills and Far Away, VI/11 (1895–97); fantasy overture for orchestra
• Paris: The Song of a Great City, VI/14 (1899-1900); nocturne for orchestra
• Two Pieces for Small Orchestra, VI/19 (1911–12)

1. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
2. Summer Night on the River

• Eventyr (Once Upon a Time), VI/23 (1917)
• A Song of Summer, VI/26 (1929–30)

• Cloud and Sunshine (1890)

• Julius Caesar (1860, rev 1865)
• Frithjof (1865)
• Der Thunersee (1903)

• L'apprenti sorcier (The Sorcerer's Apprentice), symphonic scherzo after Goethe (1896–97)
• Le fil de parque (c.1908, proyected or destroyed)

• Rhapsody in A minor, Op. 14 (1874)
• Vodník (The Water Goblin), Op. 107 (1896)
• Polednice (The Noon Witch), Op. 108 (1896)
• Zlatý kolovrat (The Golden Spinning Wheel), Op. 109 (1896)
• Holoubek (The Wild Dove), Op. 110 (1896; r. 1897)
• Píseň bohatýrská (A Hero's Song), Op. 111 (1897)

• Cockaigne (In London Town) (1900–01)
• In the South (Alassio) (1903–04)
• Falstaff Symphonic Study in C minor, Op. 68 (1913)

• Isis (unfinished, 1923; completed by Pascal Bentoiu)
• Vox maris, Op. 31 (1929–54)

• El sueño de Eros (The dream of Eros, 1912)
• Don Quijote velando las armas (Don Quixote guarding the weapons, 1924)

• La Nueva España, a set of six symphonic poems (1992–99)

• Othello, Op. 6 (1873)
• Spring, Op 13 (1881)
• Záboj, Slavoj a Luděk, Op. 37 (1873)
• The Tempest, Op. 46 (1880)
• Toman and the Wood Nymph, Op. 49 (1874–75)

• Mé Mládí, Op. 44 (My Youth, 1900)
• Jaro a touha, Op. 93 (Springtime and Desire, 1912)

• Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne, symphonic poem after Victor Hugo, (1846)
• Rédemption, for soprano, chorus and orchestra, M. 52 (1872, r. 1874)
• Les Éolides, M. 43 (1875–76)
• Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Huntsman), M. 44 (1881–82)
• Les Djinns, for piano and orchestra, M. 45 (1884)
• Psyché, for orchestra and chorus, M. 47 (1886–88)

• An American in Paris (1928, actually 'Tone Poem')
• Cuban Overture (1932, conceived as a symphonic poem)

• Stenka Razin, Op. 13 (1885)

• The Sirens, Op. 33 (1908)
• The Zaporozhy Cossacks, Op. 64 (1921)
• The Bequest, Op. 73 (1941)

• Shock Diamonds (1968)

• Čekání (Waiting, 1942)
• Děti Daidalovy (Daedalus' Children, 1961)

• Train Music (1901–57)

• Knute Rockne (1931)
• Rip Van Winkle (1932-1954, reworked into "Hudson River Suite")
• Trylon and Perisphere (1939, later renamed as "Black Gold")
• Atlantic Crossing (1965)

• Before the Dawn (1920)
• Exaltation, Op. 20 (1920)
• North and West (1923)
• Lux aeterna, Op. 24 (1923–26)
• Pan and the Priest, Op. 26 (1926)

• Miserae (1933–34, previously titled Symphony No. 1)

• Scenes of Summer (1973)

• Indra, Op 13 (1903)
• Egdon Heath, Op. 47 (1927)

• Pastorale d'été (1920)
• Pacific 231 Symphonic Movement No. 1 (1924)
• Rugby Symphonic Movement No. 2 (1928)
• Radio-panoramique (1935)

• Copernicus, Op. 338 (1960)
• Komachi 7 miniature tone poems for piano, Op. 240 (1971)

• David of Sassoun, symphonic poem after Armenian epos, Op. 11 (2006)
• The Letter from an Unknown Woman, for Strings, Op. 56 (2017)

• The Forgotten Rite (1913)
• Mai-Dun (1921)

• Ode to the Motherland, Op. 13 (1959)
• Wonders of Naxi, Op. 25 (1984)
• Mountain Soul, Op. 39 (1995)
• A Hundred Years of Vicissitudes, Op. 41 (1996)

• Varavīksne (Rainbow, 1939)
• Lāčplēsis (Lacplesis, 1957)
• Poema Luttuoso for string orchestra (1966)
• Novella Brevis (1982)

• Central Park in the Dark (1906, rev 1936)
• The Unanswered Question (1908, rev 1930–35)
• The General Slocum (Sketched 1909–10, three completions made, most notably the one by D.G. Porter)

• Spring, Op. 65 (1960)
• The Eternal Flame in Bryansk, Op. 85 (1968?)

• Minas, the Rebel Corsair of the Aegean (1940)
• The Death of the Valiant Woman (1943, rev 1944–45)

• Returning Waves, Op. 9 (1904)
• Eternal Songs, Op. 10 (1906)
• Lithuanian Rhapsody, Op. 11 (1906)
• Stanisław i Anna Oświecimowie, Op. 12 (1906)
• A Sorrowful Tale, Op. 13 (1907–08)
• An Episode during Masquerade, Op. 14 (1908–09)

• Vineta, Op. 16 (1886)
• Im Urwald, Op.43 (1901, based on Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha)
• Sir John Falstaff, Op. 60 (1904)

• On the Mountain Pass (1940)
• Tales about the New Land (1958-60)
• Letters to a Girl Friend (1961)

• Hiawatha (circa 1908)
• A Fairy Tale (circa 1913)

• Tomorrow for mezzo-soprano, women's choir and orchestra, Op. 31 (1944, from the movie The Constant Nymph)

• In Memoriam, Op. 35 (1941)

• Symphonic Poem (1957, dedicated to the 40 anniversary of the October Revolution)

• Liszt's symphonic poems:
  • Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne (1848-9) (after Victor Hugo)
  • Tasso: lamento e trionfo (1849) (after Byron)
  • Les Préludes, after Lamartine (1848, rev. before 1854)
  • Orpheus (1853-4)
  • Prometheus (1850)
  • Mazeppa (1851)
  • Festklänge (1853)
  • Héroïde funèbre (1849–50)
  • Hungaria (1854)
  • Hamlet (1858)
  • Hunnenschlacht (1857)
  • Die Ideale (1857) (after Schiller)
  • Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (1881-2)

• Aurora (1948)[1]

• Возз’єднання, Op. 49 (Reunification, 1949–50)
• Grazyna, Op 58 (1955)
• На берегах Вислы, Op. 59 (On the Banks of the Vistula, 1958)
• Lyric poem "To the Memory of Gliere", Op. 66 (1964)

• Kullervo, Op. 15 (1913)
• Sammon ryöstö (The Abduction of The Sampo), for baritone and male choir, Op. 24 (1915); text from the Kalevala
• Aslak Smaukka, for baritone and male choir, Op. 37 (1917)
• Väinämöisen kylvö (Väinämöinen Sows the Wilderness), for soprano (or tenor), Op. 46 (1919–20); text from the Kalevala

• Cantabile suite (2004–09)

• Angel of Death H 17 (1910)
• Vanishing Midnight Cycle of symphonic poems H 131 (1922)

• Comala (1889)

• Jesus (1928, lost)

• Silence, after the fable by Edgar Allan Poe, Op. 9 (1909–10)
• Alastor, After the poem by Shelley, Op. 14 (1912)

• Town Piper Music (Stadtpfeifermusik, 1941)

• Night on the Bare Mountain (1867, reworked into multiple versions)
• Pictures at an Exhibition (1874, orchestrated by Maurice Ravel in 1922)

• V Tatrách, Op. 26 (In the Tatra mountains, 1902)
• O večné touze, Op. 33 (Eternal Longing, 1903–05), after Hans Christian Andersen
• Toman a lesní panna, Op. 40 (Toman and the Wood Nymph, 1906–07)
• Pan for solo piano, Op. 43 (1910)
• De Profundis, Op. 67 (1941)

• Saga-Drøm (Saga Dream), Op. 39 (1908)
• Pan og Syrinx (Pan and Syrinx), Op. 49 (1918)
• En Fantasirejse til Færøerne (An Imaginary Trip to the Faroe Islands, 1927)

• Regnar Lodbrog, Op. 2 (1900-01)
• Sommernatsstemning! (1903, lost, only an arrangement for 4-hand-piano remains)
• In Memoriam (1904)
• Babelstaarnet, Op.35 (Tower of Babel, 1912-14)
• Hjortholm (1923)

• The Tempest, Op. 31 (ca.1876, after Shakespeare)
• Poseidon and Amphitrite, Op. 44 (ca.1888)
• Lincoln (ca.1904-06, incomplete)

• Ethiopia's Shadow in America (1929-32)
• Songs of the Oak (1943)

• Manfred (1890-01, lost)
• Prince Rostislav (1891)
• The Rock, Op. 7 (1893)
• Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (1908)

• Volker for violin and piano, Op. 203 (1876)

• Ardbeg (2003)
• Barlinnie Nine (2005)
• Rautasade (Iron Rain) (2008)

• Dithyramb (1909, revised by Kurt Atterberg in 1948)
• Ett Midsommarstycke (A Midsummer Piece, 1910)
• En Höstsång (An Autumn Song, 1911)
• Havet Sjunger (Song of the Sea, 1913)

• Vier Tondichtungen nach A. Böcklin (Four Tone Poems after Arnold Böcklin) for orchestra, Op. 128 (1913)

• Bebek Efsanesi, symphonic poem for orchestra
• Karagöz
• Denizciler Marşı Başlayış
• Çağrılış
• Fatih
• Türkiye (1971)
• Ellinci Yıla Giriş

• Fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome), P 106 (1916); part I of Respighi's Roman Trilogy
• Ballata delle gnomidi (Ballad of the Gnomes), P 124 (1919)
• Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome), P 141 (1924); part II of Respighi's Roman Trilogy
• Feste Romane (Roman Festivals), P 157 (1928); part III of Respighi's Roman Trilogy

• Cuauhnáhuac (1931, rev 1931–32)
• Esquinas (1931, rev 1933)
• Janitzio (1933, rev 1936)
• Sensemayá (1937, rev 1938)

• Sadko Musical picture, Op.5 (1867, rev 1869 and 1892)
• Antar Op. 9 (1868, rev 1875 and 1891)
• Scheherazade Symphonic Suite, Op. 35 (1888)
• Flight of the Bumblebee Orchestral interlude from the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1899-1900)
• Night on Mount Triglav from the opera Mlada (1899-1901)

• Faust, Op. 68 (1864)
• Ivan the Terrible, Op. 79 (1869)
• Don Quixote, Op. 87 (1870)

• Spartacus (1863)
• Le Rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 (1869)
• Phaéton, Op. 39 (1873)
• Danse macabre, Op. 40 (1874)
• La Jeunesse d'Hercule, Op. 50 (1877)
• La Muse et le Poète, Op. 132 (1910)

• Rotative for three pianos, winds and percussion (1929)

• Légende Symphonique (1907)
• Morocco (1927)

• Frühlings Tod (Fragment, 1898)
• Verklärte Nacht, Op.4 (1899)
• Pelleas und Melisande, Op.5 (1902–03)

• The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54 (1905–08); often listed as Symphony No. 4
• Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60 (1910); often listed as Symphony No. 5

• From Karl Marx to Our Own Days for solo voices, chorus and orchestra (1932)
• The Execution of Stepan Razin, Op. 119 (1964)
• October, Op. 131 (1967)

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

• Kullervo Symphony-Symphonic Poem, Op. 7 (1891-2) *
• En saga (A Saga or A Fairy Tale), Op. 9 (1892, r. 1902)
• Vårsång (Spring Song), Op. 16 (1894, r. 1895 and 1902)
• Skogsrået (The Wood Nymph), Op. 15 (1894–95)
• Lemminkäinen Suite (also known as Four Legends from the Kalevala), a cycle of four symphonic poems, Op. 22 (1895) *

1. Lemminkäinen ja saaren neidot (Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of the Island) (1895, r. 1897 and 1939) *
2. Tuonelan joutsen (The Swan of Tuonela) (1893-1895, r. 1897 and 1900) *
3. Lemminkäinen Tuonelassa (Lemminkäinen in Tuonela) (1895, r. 1897 and 1939) *
4. Lemminkäinen palaa kotitienoille (Lemminkäinen's Return) (1895, r. 1897 and 1900) *

• Finlandia, Op. 26 (1899, r. 1900); arranged from Press Celebrations Music, JS 137
• Pohjolan tytär (Pohjola's Daughter), Op. 49 (1906) *
• Pan och Echo (Pan and Echo), Op. 53a (1906)
• Öinen ratsastus ja auringonnousu (Nightride and Sunrise), Op. 55 (1909)
• Dryadi (The Dryad), Op. 45/1 (1910)
• Luonnotar (Spirit of Nature), for soprano and orchestra, Op. 70 (1913); text from the Kalevala *
• Barden (The Bard), Op. 64 (1913, r. 1914)
• Aallottaret (The Oceanides), Op. 73 (1913–14, r. 1914)
• Tapiola, Op. 112 (1926) *

• Richard III, Op. 11/JB 1:70 (1857–58)
• Valdštýnův tábor (Wallenstein's Camp), Op. 14/JB 1:72 (1858–59)
• Hakon Jarl, Op. 16/JB 1:79 (1860–61)
• Má vlast (My Homeland), JB 1:112 (1874–79); a cycle of six symphonic poems

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

• Darkness and Dawn, Op. 5 (1901)
• The Djinns (1911)
• The Golden Age, Op.40 (Cycle of five symphonic poems, 1916)
• Vision of Isaiah, Op. 58 (1927)
• Credo, Op. 85 (1941)
• Triumph and peace for solo organ, Op. 88 (1942)
• The Apostle, Op. 92 (1944)

• Darker America (1924)
• Africa (1924–30)
• Dismal Swamp (1933–36)
• Kaintuck (1935)
• Poem for Orchestra (1944)

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

• Aus Italien (From Italy), Op. 16 (1886)
• Don Juan, Op. 20 (1888)
• Macbeth, Op. 23 (1886–88)
• Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), Op. 24 (1889)
• Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), Op. 28 (1894–95)
• Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra), Op. 30 (1896)
• Don Quixote, Op. 35 (1897)
• Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op. 40 (1898)
• Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53 (1903)
• Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), Op. 64 (1915)

• Le chant du rossignol (Song of the Nightingale, 1917)

• Praga, Op. 26 (1904)
• Pohádka Léta, Op. 29 (A Summer's Tale, 1908–09)
• Ripening, Op. 34 (1912–17)
• Cycle of Symphonic Poems from Czech History (1915–17)

• Daybreak in the Field (Symphonic Picture, 1949)
• Daugava (1952)
• Azov Mountain, Op.10
• The Red Guelder-Rose

• Oresteia (labeled as an "overture", but really a symphonic poem based on themes from his opera of the same name)

• The Storm, Op. (posth.) 76 (1864)
• Fatum, Op. 77 (1868)
• Romeo and Juliet, overture-fantasy after Shakespeare, TH 42 (1869–70, r. 1880)
• Francesca da Rimini, symphonic fantasia after Dante, Op. 32 (1876)
• The Tempest, symphonic fantasia after Shakespeare, Op. 18 (1873)
• Marche slave, Op. 31 (1876)
• Hamlet, overture-fantasy, Op. 67a (1889)
• The Voyevoda, Op. (posth.) 78 (1891)

• Nykken (1957)

• The Dream of Stepan Razin (1949)
• The Hero's Exploit (1957, later renamed as "Poem No. 2")
• Lights in the Steppe (1958, later renamed as "Poem No. 1")
• Poem on Peace (1962)

• Apothéoses de l'océan (circa 1905, lost)
• Bourgogne (circa 1908, lost)
• Gargantua (lost)

• Les djinns, Op. 35 for soprano and orchestra (1912)
• Psyché, Op. 33 for soprano and orchestra (1914)
• Éros, Op. 37 for soprano and orchestra (1916)

• Saul en David, Op. 24 (1906)
• Elverhoï, Op. 48 (1940)

• Siegfried Idyll (1869–70)

• Im Sommerwind (actually 'Idyll after B. Wille', 1904)

• Symphonic Poem, Op. 6 (1941)
• Morning-Red, Op. 60 (1957)
• The Banners of Peace, Op. 143 (1986)

• König Lear, Op. 20 (King Lear, 1895)
• Das Gefilde der Seligen, Op. 21 (Fields of the Blessed, 1892)
• La Burla, Op. 78 (a.k.a The Tempest)
• Frühling, Op. 80

• Godzilla Eats Las Vegas (for winds, 1996)

• In the Fen Country (1904, rev 1905 and 1907)

• Penthesilea (1883–85)

• Mannin Veen: Dear Isle of Man (1933)

• Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid), fantasy after Hans Christian Andersen (1902–03)

• The Dark Gate (1913, inspired by a poem by Rofu Miki)
• Flower of Mandala (1913, inspired by a poem by Kazo Saito)

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