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).