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1. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun), L. 86

626 Claude Debussy Symphonic Poem 1894 Play

2. Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra), Op. 30

599 Richard Strauss Symphonic Poem 1896 Play

3. Danse macabre, Op. 40

136 Camille Saint-Saëns Symphonic Poem 1874 Play

4. Romeo and Juliet

73 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphonic Poem 1869 Play

5. Night on Bald Mountain

61 Modest Mussorgsky Symphonic Poem 1867 Play

6. Isle of the Dead, Op. 29

54 Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphonic Poem 1908 Play

7. Pines of Rome (Pini di Roma)

25 Ottorino Respighi Symphonic Poem 1924 Play

8. An American in Paris

25 George Gershwin Symphonic Poem 1928 Play

9. Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103

22 Richard Wagner Symphonic Poem 1870 Play

10. Death and Transfiguration (Tod und Verklärung), Op. 24

17 Richard Strauss Symphonic Poem 1889 Play

11. Les préludes, S. 97

17 Franz Liszt Symphonic Poem 1854 Play

12. Don Juan, Op. 20

15 Richard Strauss Symphonic Poem 1888 Play

13. In the Steppes of Central Asia

15 Alexander Borodin Symphonic Poem 1880 Play

14. The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'apprenti sorcier)

14 Paul Dukas Symphonic Poem 1897 Play

12 Franz Liszt Symphonic Poem 1851 Play

16. Sinfonietta

12 Leoš Janáček Symphonic Poem 1926 Play

17. The Water Goblin (Vodník), Op. 107 (B. 195)

11 Antonín Dvořák Symphonic Poem 1896 Play

18. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

8 Frederick Delius Symphonic Poem 1912 Play

19. Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32

8 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphonic Poem 1876 Play

20. Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), Op. 28

7 Richard Strauss Symphonic Poem 1895 Play

21. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5

7 Arnold Schoenberg Symphonic Poem 1903 Play

22. Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60

7 Alexander Scriabin Symphonic Poem 1910 Play

23. The Rock, Op. 7

7 Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphonic Poem 1893 Play

24. Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op. 40

6 Richard Strauss Symphonic Poem 1898 Play

6 Franz Liszt Symphonic Poem 1854 Play

26. Die Seejungfrau

6 Alexander von Zemlinsky Symphonic Poem 1903 Play

27. Nightride and Sunrise, Op. 55

6 Jean Sibelius Symphonic Poem 1908 Play

28. Don Quixote, Op. 35

5 Richard Strauss Symphonic Poem 1898 Play

29. Fountains of Rome (Fontane di Roma)

5 Ottorino Respighi Symphonic Poem 1917 Play

30. The Wood Nymph, Op. 15

5 Jean Sibelius Symphonic Poem 1894 Play

4 Arnold Bax Symphonic Poem 1919 Play

32. Roman Festivals (Feste Romane)

4 Ottorino Respighi Symphonic Poem 1928 Play

33. Pastorale d'été, H. 31

4 Arthur Honegger Symphonic Poem 1920 Play

3 Mily Balakirev Symphonic Poem 1882 Play

35. The Noon Witch (Polednice), Op. 108, B. 196

3 Antonín Dvořák Symphonic Poem 1896 Play

36. The Oceanides (Aallottaret), Op. 73

3 Jean Sibelius Symphonic Poem 1914 Play

37. November Woods

3 Arnold Bax Symphonic Poem 1917 Play

38. Pohjola's Daughter (Pohjolan tytär), Op. 49

2 Jean Sibelius Symphonic Poem 1906 Play

39. En saga, Op. 9

2 Jean Sibelius Symphonic Poem 1892 Play

40. Egdon Heath, Op. 47, H. 172

2 Gustav Holst Symphonic Poem 1927 Play

41. Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Huntsman), FWV 44

2 César Franck Symphonic Poem 1882 Play

42. Les Djinns, FWV 45

2 César Franck Symphonic Poem 1884 Play

43. Spring Fire

2 Arnold Bax Symphonic Poem 1913 Play

44. Enter Spring, H. 174

2 Frank Bridge Symphonic Poem 1927 Play

45. The Bard, Op. 64

2 Jean Sibelius Symphonic Poem 1913 Play

46. Tapiola, Op. 112

1 Jean Sibelius Symphonic Poem 1926 Play

47. Vers la voûte étoilée, Op. 129

1 Charles Koechlin Symphonic Poem 1933 Play

48. El Salón México

1 Aaron Copland Symphonic Poem 1936 Play

49. Penthesilea

1 Hugo Wolf Symphonic Poem 1885 Play

50. Falstaff, Op. 68

1 Edward Elgar Symphonic Poem 1912 Play