Symphonic Poem
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SYMPHONIC POEM type of orchestral composition created by Liszt, also called tone poem. Discarding classical...intended by Liszt. His Tasso (1849) and Hamlet (1876) are compositions of this sort. Although the symphonic poem better expressed...Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens, Sibelius, Franck, and Dvorak, wrote in both forms. In the symphonic poems of Smetana...