Symphonic Poem
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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SYMPHONIC POEM type of orchestral composition created by Liszt, also called tone poem. Discarding classical principles of form, it begins with a poetic or other literary inspiration...Saint-Saens, Sibelius, Franck, and Dvorak, wrote in both forms. In the symphonic poems of Smetana and Sibelius an element...