List of symphonic poems

This is a list of some notable symphonic poems.

Béla Bartók
*"Kossuth" (1903)
Arnold Bax
* "Tintagel"
* "The Garden of Fand"
* "November Woods"
* "Happy Forest"
Alexander Borodin
* "In the Steppes of Central Asia"
George Whitefield Chadwick
* "Symphonic Sketches"
Claude Debussy
*"Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune"
*"Dances Sacrée et Profane" for harp and orchestra (1903)
*"La Mer", esquisses symphoniques (Symphonic Sketches) for orchestra (1905)
Frederick Delius
* "A Song of Summer"
* "Eventyr" ("Once Upon a Time")
* "On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring"
Paul Dukas
* "L'apprenti-sorcier" ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice")
Antonín Dvořák
* "The Golden Spinning Wheel"
* "The Noon Witch"
* "The Water Goblin"
* "The Wood Dove"
* "The Hero's Song"
George Enescu
* "Vox maris"
César Franck
* "Le Chasseur Maudit" ("The Accursed Huntsman")
George Gershwin
* "An American in Paris"
* "Cuban Overture"
Percy Grainger
* "Train Music"
Gustav Holst
* "Egdon Heath"
Arthur Honegger
* "Pacific 231"
Mieczysław Karłowicz
*"Returning Waves, op.9 (1904)
*"Eternal Songs", op.10 (1906)
*"Lithuanian Rhapsody", op.11 (1906)
*"Stanisław i Anna Ošwiecimovie", op.12 (1906)
*"Sorrowful Tale", op.13 (1908)
*"An Episode during Masquerade", op.14 (1908-09)
Franz Liszt
* "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)
Paul McCartney
* "Standing Stone"
Modest Mussorgsky
* "Night on Bald Mountain"
Sergei Rachmaninoff
*"Prince Rostislav" (1891)
*"The Rock", op. 7 (1893)
*"Caprice Bohémien", op.12 (1894)
*"Isle of the Dead", op.29 (1909)
Cemal Reşit Rey
* Bebek Efsanesi", symponic poem for orchestra
* "Karagöz"
* "Denizciler Marşı Başlayış"
* "Çağrılış"
* "Fatih"
Ottorino Respighi
* "Brazilian Impressions"
* The Roman trilogy, "The Pines of Rome", "The Fountains of Rome", and "Roman Festivals"
Silvestre Revueltas
* "Sensemaya"
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
* "Night on Mount Triglav"
* "Sadko (Symphonic Picture)"
Camille Saint-Saëns
*"Le Rouet d'Omphale", op. 31
*"Phaéton", op. 39
*"Danse macabre", op. 40
*"La Jeunesse d'Hercule", op. 50
Arnold Schoenberg
* "Pelleas und Melisande"
Alexander Scriabin
*"The Poem of Ecstasy", op. 54 (1905)
*"Prometheus: The Poem of Fire", op.60 (1910)
Dmitri Shostakovich
*"October", op. 131 (1967)
Jean Sibelius
*"Kullervo", Symphony for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra Op.7 (1892)
*"En Saga", Tone Poem for orchestra Op.9 (1892)
*"Rakastava" (The Lover) for male voices and strings or strings and percussion Op.14 (1893/1911)
*"Lemminkäinen Suite" (Four Legends from the Kalevala) for orchestra Op.22 (1893)
*"Skogsrået" (The Wood Nymph), Tone Poem for orchestra Op.15 (1894)
*"Vårsång" for orchestra Op.16 (1894)
*"Kung Kristian (King Christian)", Suite from the incidental music for orchestra Op.27 (1898)
*"Sandels", Improvisation for chorus and orchestra Op.28 (1898)
*"Finlandia" for orchestra and chorus (optional) Op.26 (1899)
*"Snöfrid" for reciter, chorus and orchestra Op.29 (1899)
*"Tulen synty" (The Origin of Fire) Op.32 (1902)
*"Kuolema" ("Valse Triste" and "Scene with Cranes") for orchestra Op.44 (1904/1906)
*"Pohjolan tytär" (Pohjola's Daughter), Tone Poem for orchestra Op.49 (1906)
*"Svanevit" (Swan-white), Suite from the incidental music for orchestra Op.54 (1908)
*"Nightride and Sunrise", Tone Poem for orchestra Op.55 (1909)
*"Dryadi" (The Dryad) for orchestra Op.45/1 (1910)
*"Barden" (The Bard), Tone Poem for orchestra and harp Op.64 (1913/1914)
*"Luonnotar", Tone Poem for soprano and orchestra Op.70 (1913)
*"Aallottaret" (The Oceanides), Tone Poem for orchestra Op.73 (1914)
*"Oma Maa" (Our Fatherland) for chorus and orchestra Op.92 (1918)
*"Jordens sång" (Song of the Earth) for chorus and orchestra Op.93 (1919)
*"Väinön virsi" (Väinö's song) for chorus and orchestra Op.110 (1926)
*"Tapiola", Tone Poem for orchestra Op.112 (1926)
Bedřich Smetana
* "Má Vlast", a cycle of six symphonic poems including the famous "Vltava"
Kaikhosru Sorabji
*"Chaleur" (1917)
Richard Strauss - one of the most prolific in the genre. He preferred the appellation "tone poem".
* "Aus Italien"
* "Don Juan"
* "Death and Transfiguration"
* "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"
* "Also sprach Zarathustra"
* "Don Quixote"
* "Ein Heldenleben"
* "Symphonia Domestica"
* "Eine Alpensinfonie"
* "Macbeth, "op. 23 (1888)
Sergei Taneyev
* "Oresteia" (labeled as an "overture", but really a symphonic poem based on themes from his opera of the same name)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
* "Francesca da Rimini"
* "The Tempest"
Geirr Tveitt
* "Nykken
Edgard Varèse
* "Poème électronique
Anton Webern
*"Im Sommerwind" (1904)
Alexander Zemlinsky
*"Die Seejungfrau" (1905)