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His symphonic poem Les Préludes began in 1844 as an overture for a planned choral cantata based on poetry of Joseph Autran, but having abandoned that work, he recast the overture as an independent symphonic poem and associated it, after having completed most of the piece, with Alphonse Lamartine’s poem “Les préludes.” Liszt led the ...
A symphonic poem is a kind of programme music (music for instruments which has an idea outside music). Symphonic poems were mostly written in the 19th century at the time known as the Romantic period. They are normally in one movement lasting perhaps between 10 and 20 minutes. Some of the longest ones, such as Ein Heldenleben by Richard Strauss ...
This 3CD set contains all the symphonic poems, including The Four Legends (The Swan of Tuonela is the second of these), the famous Finlandia, and the masterful Pohjola’s Daughter, the mysterious Oceanides and Luonnotar, and the final last symphonic work Tapiola. After completing this work, Sibelius lived another 31 years in musical silence ...
The Noon Witch (or The Noonday Witch; Czech: Polednice ), Op. 108, B. 196, is a symphonic poem written in 1896 by Antonín Dvořák which was inspired by the Karel Jaromír Erben poem Polednice from the collection Kytice. Polednice is based on the noon demon "Lady Midday" of Slavic mythology. It is one of a set of late orchestral works inspired ...
With his Symphonic Poems Franz Liszt created a new genre of program music, in which a certain extra-musical work of art, event or general feeling received a musical form and expression as a one-movement work for full symphony orchestra. In this he paved the way for many composers after him, notably Wagner, Franck and Richard Strauss.
Nov 22, 2021 · Filled with passion, turbulence, pathos, and heroic exultation, this free-form music probed new psychological depths. Liszt’s Les Préludes, composed between 1849 and 1855, was the first piece to be called a “symphonic poem.”. Les Préludes (“The Beginnings”) was first conceived as an overture to Liszt’s choral cycle, Les quatre ...
May 10, 2024 · A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other (non-musical) source. The German term Tondichtung (tone poem) appears to have been first used by.
