Symphonic poems

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Name (Hebrew)
פואמות סימפוניות
Name (Latin)
Symphonic poems
Name (Arabic)
القصائد السمفونية
Other forms of name
Symphonic poems (Orchestra)
Tone poems
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata: Q271802
Library of congress: sh 85131460
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Wikipedia description:

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 the composer Carl Loewe in 1828. The Hungarian composer Franz Liszt first applied the term Symphonische Dichtung to his 13 works in this vein, which commenced in 1848.

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