SYMPHONIC POEM


Meaning of SYMPHONIC POEM in English

or tone poem

Musical work for orchestra inspired by an extramusical story, idea, or "program," to which the title typically refers or alludes.

It evolved from the concert overture , an overture not attached to an opera or play yet suggestive of a literary or natural sequence of events. Franz Liszt , who coined the term, wrote 13 such works. Famous symphonic poems include Bedřich Smetana 's The Moldau (1879), Claude Debussy 's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (1894), Paul Dukas 's The Sorceror's Apprentice (1897), Richard Strauss 's Don Quixote (1897), and Jean Sibelius 's Finlandia (1900).

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