List of symphonic poems

This is a list of some notable composers who wrote symphonic poems.

Hugo Alfvén

 * En skärgardssägen, Op. 20 (1903)

Frederic Austin

 * Isabella or the Pot of Basil (1909, after the poem by John Keats)

Edgar Bainton

 * Pompilia (1903)
 * Paracelsus, Op. 8 (1904, after the poem by Robert Browning)
 * Thalassa (1933, reworked into his Symphony No. 2 in D minor between 1939-40)

Mily Balakirev

 * Russia Second Overture on Russian Themes (1863–64, revised 1884)
 * In Bohemia Overture on Czech Themes (1867, revised 1905)
 * Tamara (1867–82)

Béla Bartók

 * Kossuth (1903)

Arnold Bax

 * Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan (1905)
 * Into the Twilight (1908)
 * In the Faëry Hills (1909)
 * Rosc-catha (1910)
 * Christmas Eve (1912, r. 1921)
 * Nympholept (1912, orch. 1915, r. 1935)
 * The Garden of Fand (1913, orch. 1916)
 * Spring Fire (1913)
 * In Memoriam (1916)
 * November Woods (1917)
 * Tintagel (1917, orch. 1919)
 * Summer Music (1917, orch. 1921, r. 1932)
 * The Happy Forest (1922)
 * The Tale the Pine Trees Knew (1931)
 * Northern Ballad No. 1 (1927)
 * Northern Ballad No. 2 (1934)
 * Prelude for a Solemn Occasion (Northern Ballad No. 3) (1927, orch. 1933)
 * A Legend (1944)

Paul Ben-Haim

 * Pan for soprano and orchestra, Op. 13 (1931)
 * Yizkor (Evocation) for violin and orchestra (1942)

Natanael Berg

 * Traumgewalten (1910)
 * Varde ljus! (1914)

Hector Berlioz

 * Chasse royale et orage from the Opera Les Troyens (1856–58)

Franz Berwald

 * Slaget vid Leipzig (The Battle of Leipzig, 1828)
 * Elfenspiel (Play of the Elves, 1841)
 * Ernste und heitere Grillen (Serious and Merry Whims, 1842)
 * Erinnerung an die norwegischen Alpen (Reminiscence of the Norwegian Mountains, 1842)
 * Bayaderen-Fest (Festival of the Bayadères, 1842)
 * Wettlauf (Racing, 1842)

Adolphe Biarent

 * Trenmor (1905, after a legend from Ossian)

Arthur H. Bird

 * Eine Karneval-Szene, Op. 5 (A Carnival Scene, 1886)

Ernest Bloch

 * Vivre-aimer (1900)
 * Hiver-printemps (1904-05)
 * Voice in the Wilderness (1936)

Mel Bonis

 * Salomé, Op. 100 (1909, unpublished)
 * Ophélie, Op. 165 (published in 2018)
 * Le Rêve de Cléopâtre, Op. 180 (The dream of Cleopatra, published in 2018)

Hjalmar Borgstrøm

 * Hamlet, Op. 13 (1903)
 * Jesus i Gethsemane, Op. 14 (Jesus in Gethsemane, 1904)
 * John Gabriel Borkman, Op. 15 (1905)
 * Die Nacht der Toten, Op. 16 (The Night of the Dead, 1905)
 * Tanken, Op. 26 (The Idea, 1917)

Alexander Borodin

 * In the Steppes of Central Asia (actually 'Musical Picture'; 1880)

Sergei Bortkiewicz

 * Othello, Op. 19 (1914)

Rutland Boughton

 * A Summer Night (1899, rev 1903)
 * Imperial Elegy: Into the Everlasting (1901)
 * Troilus and Cressida (Thou and I) (1902)
 * Love in Spring (1906)
 * Midnight for Chorus & Orchestra (1907)

Lili Boulanger

 * D'un matin de printemps (A spring morning, 1918)
 * D'un soir triste (A sad evening, 1918)

York Bowen

 * The Lament of Tasso, Op.5 (1902)
 * Symphonic Fantasia, Op.16 (1905)

Henry Brant

 * Curriculum ll: Spatial Tone Poem

Havergal Brian

 * Hero and Leander Op. 8 (1904–06, lost)
 * Humorous Legend on Three Blind Mice (1908–09, withdrawn)
 * In Memoriam (1910)
 * Doctor Merryheart Comedy Overture No. 1 (1911-2)
 * The Battle Song (sketched between 1930 and 1931, completed by John Pickard in 1997)
 * Elegy (1954)

Frank Bridge

 * Mid of the Night (1903)
 * Isabella (1907, after John Keats)
 * Summer (1914-15)
 * Enter Spring (1926-27)

Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff

 * Manfred (c.1901)

Alfred Bruneau

 * La belle au bois dormant (The sleeping beauty, 1894)

Ferrucio Busoni

 * Symphonisches Tongedicht, Op. 31a (1893)

Alfredo Casella

 * Pagine di Guerra for four-hand piano (1915, revised and orchestrated in 1918)
 * A Notte Alta, Op. 30 for solo piano (1917, arranged for piano and orchestra in 1921)

George Whitefield Chadwick

 * Symphonic Sketches (1895-1904)
 * Cleopatra (1904)
 * Aphrodite Symphonic Fantasy (1910–11)
 * Tam o' Shanter, Symphonic Ballad (1914–15)
 * Angel of Death (1917–18)

Ernest Chausson

 * Viviane (1882, rev 1887)

Frederic Cliffe

 * Cloud and Sunshine (1890)

James Cohn

 * A Song of the Waters, Op. 53 (1976)

Claude Debussy

 * Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune ( Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, 1891–94)
 * La Mer (The Sea, 1903–05, rev 1908)

Frederick Delius

 * Hiawatha (1887-8, completed by Robert Threlfall)
 * Three Small Tone-poems, VI/7 (1890)
 * 1) Summer Evening
 * 2) Winter Night (or, Sleigh Ride)
 * 3) Spring Morning
 * Paa Vidderne (On the Mountains), VI/10 (1890–92)
 * Over the Hills and Far Away, VI/11 (1895–97); fantasy overture for orchestra
 * Paris: The Song of a Great City, VI/14 (1899-1900); nocturne for orchestra
 * Two Pieces for Small Orchestra, VI/19 (1911–12)
 * 1) On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
 * 2) Summer Night on the River
 * Eventyr (Once Upon a Time), VI/23 (1917)
 * A Song of Summer, VI/26 (1929–30)

Felix Draeseke

 * Julius Caesar (1860, rev 1865)
 * Frithjof (1865)
 * Der Thunersee (1903)

Paul Dukas

 * L'apprenti sorcier (The Sorcerer's Apprentice), symphonic scherzo after Goethe (1896–97)
 * Le fil de parque (c.1908, proyected or destroyed)

Henri Duparc

 * Aux étoiles (only extant movement from the Poème nocturne, 1874)
 * Lénore (1875)

Antonín Dvořák

 * Rhapsody in A minor, Op. 14 (1874)
 * Vodník (The Water Goblin), Op. 107 (1896)
 * Polednice (The Noon Witch), Op. 108 (1896)
 * Zlatý kolovrat (The Golden Spinning Wheel), Op. 109 (1896)
 * Holoubek (The Wild Dove), Op. 110 (1896; r. 1897)
 * Píseň bohatýrská (A Hero's Song), Op. 111 (1897)

George Dyson

 * Siena (1907, lost)

Edward Elgar

 * Cockaigne (In London Town) (1900–01)
 * In the South (Alassio) (1903–04)
 * Falstaff Symphonic Study in C minor, Op. 68 (1913)

George Enescu

 * Isis (unfinished, 1923; completed by Pascal Bentoiu)
 * Vox maris, Op. 31 (1929–54)

Óscar Esplá

 * El sueño de Eros (The dream of Eros, 1912)
 * Don Quijote velando las armas (Don Quixote guarding the weapons, 1924)

Harry Farjeon

 * Mowgli (1907)
 * Summer Vision (1913, lost)
 * Pannychis (1942)

Lorenzo Ferrero

 * La Nueva España, a set of six symphonic poems (1992–99)

Zdeněk Fibich

 * Othello, Op. 6 (1873)
 * Spring, Op 13 (1881)
 * Záboj, Slavoj a Luděk, Op. 37 (1873)
 * The Tempest, Op. 46 (1880)
 * Toman and the Wood Nymph, Op. 49 (1874–75)

Josef Bohuslav Foerster

 * Mé Mládí, Op. 44 (My Youth, 1900)
 * Jaro a touha, Op. 93 (Springtime and Desire, 1912)

César Franck

 * Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne, symphonic poem after Victor Hugo, (1846)
 * Rédemption, for soprano, chorus and orchestra, M. 52 (1872, r. 1874)
 * Les Éolides, M. 43 (1875–76)
 * Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Huntsman), M. 44 (1881–82)
 * Les Djinns, for piano and orchestra, M. 45 (1884)
 * Psyché, for orchestra and chorus, M. 47 (1886–88)

Arthur Friedheim

 * Transitions (unknown date)

Edward German

 * Hamlet (1897)
 * The Willow Song (a.k.a. "Othello", 1922)

George Gershwin

 * An American in Paris (1928, actually 'Tone Poem')
 * Cuban Overture (1932, conceived as a symphonic poem)

Ruth Gipps

 * Knight in Armour, Op. 8 (1942)
 * Death on a Pale Horse, Op. 25 (1943)

Alexander Glazunov

 * Stenka Razin, Op. 13 (1885)

Reinhold Glière

 * The Sirens, Op. 33 (1908)
 * The Zaporozhy Cossacks, Op. 64 (1921)
 * The Bequest, Op. 73 (1941)

Karl Goldmark

 * Zrínyi, Op. 47 (1903)

Geoffrey Gordon

 * Shock Diamonds (1968)

Eugene Aynsley Goossens

 * Perseus, Op. 3 (1912)
 * The Eternal Rhythm, Op. 5 (1913)

Percy Grainger

 * Train Music (1901–57)

Čestmír Gregor

 * Čekání (Waiting, 1942)
 * Děti Daidalovy (Daedalus' Children, 1961)

Ferde Grofé

 * Knute Rockne (1931)
 * Rip Van Winkle (1932-1954, reworked into "Hudson River Suite")
 * Trylon and Perisphere (1939, later renamed as "Black Gold")
 * Atlantic Crossing (1965)

Ernest Guiraud

 * Chasse fantastique (1887)

Henry Kimball Hadley

 * Salome, Op. 55 (1905)
 * Lucifer, Op. 66 (1914)
 * Othello, Op. 96 (1919)
 * The Ocean, Op. 99 (1921)

Howard Hanson

 * Before the Dawn (1920)
 * Exaltation, Op. 20 (1920)
 * North and West (1923)
 * Lux aeterna, Op. 24 (1923–26)
 * Pan and the Priest, Op. 26 (1926)

Karl Amadeus Hartmann

 * Miserae (1933–34, previously titled Symphony No. 1)

Hamilton Harty

 * With the Wild Geese (1910)
 * The Children of Lir (1938)

Alfred Hill

 * The Lost Hunter (1945)

Joseph Holbrooke

 * The Raven, Op. 25 (1899-1900, rev 1903)
 * Ode to Victory. Op. 29 (1901, destroyed)
 * The Viking, Op. 32 (1901, rev 1912)
 * Ulalume, Op. 35 (1903)
 * The Birds of Rhiannon, Op. 87 (c.1922)

Lee Holdridge

 * Scenes of Summer (1973)

Augusta Holmès

 * Hymne à Apollon (Hymn to Apollo, 1872)
 * Les Argonautes (The Argonauts, 1880)
 * Irlande (Ireland, 1882)
 * Andromède (Andromeda, 1883)
 * Pologne (Poland, 1883)
 * La Nuit et l'Amour ("Night and love" interlude from the ode "Ludus pro Patria", 1888)

Gustav Holst

 * Indra, Op 13 (1903)
 * Egdon Heath, Op. 47 (1927)

Arthur Honegger

 * Pastorale d'été (1920)
 * Pacific 231 Symphonic Movement No. 1 (1924)
 * Rugby Symphonic Movement No. 2 (1928)
 * Radio-panoramique (1935)

Alan Hovhaness

 * Copernicus, Op. 338 (1960)
 * Komachi 7 miniature tone poems for piano, Op. 240 (1971)

Airat Ichmouratov

 * David of Sassoun, symphonic poem after Armenian epos, Op. 11 (2006)
 * The Letter from an Unknown Woman, for Strings, Op. 56 (2017)

Vincent d'Indy

 * La Divine Comédie (The Divine Comedy after Dante, 1871)
 * Poème des montagnes for piano, Op. 15 (Poem of the Mountains, 1881)
 * Istar, Op. 42 (1896)

John Ireland

 * The Forgotten Rite (1913)
 * Mai-Dun (1921)

Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

 * On the Volga, Op. 50 (1910)

Jānis Ivanovs

 * Varavīksne (Rainbow, 1939)
 * Lāčplēsis (Lacplesis, 1957)
 * Poema Luttuoso for string orchestra (1966)
 * Novella Brevis (1982)

Charles Ives

 * Central Park in the Dark (1906, rev 1936)
 * The Unanswered Question (1908, rev 1930–35)
 * The General Slocum (Sketched 1909–10, three completions made, most notably the one by D.G. Porter)

Zhu Jian'er

 * Ode to the Motherland, Op. 13 (1959)
 * Wonders of Naxi, Op. 25 (1984)
 * Mountain Soul, Op. 39 (1995)
 * A Hundred Years of Vicissitudes, Op. 41 (1996)

Dmitry Kabalevsky

 * Spring, Op. 65 (1960)
 * The Eternal Flame in Bryansk, Op. 85 (1968?)

Manolis Kalomiris

 * Minas, the Rebel Corsair of the Aegean (1940)
 * The Death of the Valiant Woman (1943, rev 1944–45)

Artur Kapp

 * Saatus (Fate, 1925)

Sigfrid Karg-Elert

 * Prinz Karneval (1908)

Mieczysław Karłowicz

 * Returning Waves, Op. 9 (1904)
 * Eternal Songs, Op. 10 (1906)
 * Lithuanian Rhapsody, Op. 11 (1906)
 * Stanisław i Anna Oświecimowie, Op. 12 (1906)
 * A Sorrowful Tale, Op. 13 (1907–08)
 * An Episode during Masquerade, Op. 14 (1908–09)

Hugo Kaun

 * Vineta, Op. 16 (1886)
 * Im Urwald, Op.43 (1901, based on Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha)
 * Sir John Falstaff, Op. 60 (1904)

Paul von Klenau

 * Paolo und Francesca (1913)
 * Jahrmarkt bei London (1922)

Lev Knipper

 * On the Mountain Pass (1940)
 * Tales about the New Land (1958-60)
 * Letters to a Girl Friend (1961)

Victor Kolar

 * Hiawatha (circa 1908)
 * A Fairy Tale (circa 1913)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

 * Tomorrow for mezzo-soprano, women's choir and orchestra, Op. 31 (1944, from the movie The Constant Nymph)

László Lajtha

 * In Memoriam, Op. 35 (1941)

Artur Lemba

 * Symphonic Poem (1957, dedicated to the 40 anniversary of the October Revolution)

Franz Liszt

 * Liszt's symphonic poems:
 * Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne (1848-9) (after Victor Hugo)
 * Tasso: lamento e trionfo (1849) (after Byron)
 * Les Préludes, after Lamartine (1848, rev. before 1854)
 * Orpheus (1853-4)
 * Prometheus (1850)
 * Mazeppa (1851)
 * Festklänge (1853)
 * Héroïde funèbre (1849–50)
 * Hungaria (1854)
 * Hamlet (1858)
 * Hunnenschlacht (1857)
 * Die Ideale (1857) (after Schiller)
 * Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (1881-2)

William Lloyd Webber

 * Aurora (1948)

Sergei Lyapunov

 * Zelazowa Wola, Op. 37 (1909)
 * Hashish, Op. 53 (1914)

Borys Lyatoshynsky

 * Возз’єднання, Op. 49 (Reunification, 1949–50)
 * Grazyna, Op 58 (1955)
 * На берегах Вислы, Op. 59 (On the Banks of the Vistula, 1958)
 * Lyric poem "To the Memory of Gliere", Op. 66 (1964)

Edward MacDowell

 * Hamlet and Ophelia, Op. 22 (1884)
 * Lancelot and Elaine, Op.25 (1886)
 * Lamia, Op. 29 (1888)
 * Die Sarazenen & Die schöne Aldâ, Op.30 (1886-90)

Leevi Madetoja

 * Kullervo, Op. 15 (1913)
 * Sammon ryöstö (The Abduction of The Sampo), for baritone and male choir, Op. 24 (1915); text from the Kalevala
 * Aslak Smaukka, for baritone and male choir, Op. 37 (1917)
 * Väinämöisen kylvö (Väinämöinen Sows the Wilderness), for soprano (or tenor), Op. 46 (1919–20); text from the Kalevala

Frederik Magle

 * Cantabile suite (2004–09)

Miguel Marqués

 * La Cova del Drach (The Cave of Drach, 1904)
 * En la Alhambra (In Alhambra, circa 1905)
 * La Vida (Life, 1906)
 * Oceánica (Oceanic, unknown date)

Bohuslav Martinů

 * Angel of Death H 17 (1910)
 * Vanishing Midnight Cycle of symphonic poems H 131 (1922)

John Blackwood McEwen

 * Comala (1889)

Erkki Melartin

 * Siikajoki, Op. 28 (1903-04)
 * Traumgesicht, Op. 70 (1910)
 * Patria, Op. 72 (1911)

Aarre Merikanto

 * Lemminkäinen (1916)
 * Pan (1924)
 * Notturno (1928)
 * The Abduction of Kyllikki (1936)

Olivier Messiaen

 * Jesus (1928, lost)

Richard Mohaupt

 * Town Piper Music (Stadtpfeifermusik, 1941)

Douglas Moore

 * Moby Dick (1928)
 * In Memoriam (1943)

Vano Muradeli

 * The Path of Victory (1950)

Modest Mussorgsky

 * Night on the Bare Mountain (1867, reworked into multiple versions)
 * Pictures at an Exhibition (1874, orchestrated by Maurice Ravel in 1922)

Nikolai Myaskovsky

 * Silence, after the fable by Edgar Allan Poe, Op. 9 (1909–10)
 * Alastor, After the poem by Shelley, Op. 14 (1912)

Carl Nielsen

 * Saga-Drøm (Saga Dream), Op. 39 (1908)
 * Pan og Syrinx (Pan and Syrinx), Op. 49 (1918)
 * En Fantasirejse til Færøerne (An Imaginary Trip to the Faroe Islands, 1927)

Ludolf Nielsen

 * Regnar Lodbrog, Op. 2 (1900-01)
 * Sommernatsstemning! (1903, lost, only an arrangement for 4-hand-piano remains)
 * In Memoriam (1904)
 * Babelstaarnet, Op.35 (Tower of Babel, 1912-14)
 * Hjortholm (1923)

Zygmunt Noskowski

 * Step, Op. 66 (The Steppe, 1895)

Vítězslav Novák

 * V Tatrách, Op. 26 (In the Tatra mountains, 1902)
 * O večné touze, Op. 33 (Eternal Longing, 1903–05), after Hans Christian Andersen
 * Toman a lesní panna, Op. 40 (Toman and the Wood Nymph, 1906–07)
 * Pan for solo piano, Op. 43 (1910)
 * De Profundis, Op. 67 (1941)

Feliks Nowowiejski

 * Three Symphonic Poems, Op. 17
 * 1. Beatrice (1903)
 * 2. Nina and Pergolesi (1905)
 * 3. The Death of Helena (1915)

Ole Olsen

 * Asgaardsreien, Op. 10 (1878, rev before 1910)
 * Alfedans, Op. 14 (ca.1880)

Otakar Ostrčil

 * Pohádka o Šemíku, Op. 3 (Tale of Šemík, 1899)
 * Léto, Op. 23 (Summer, 1927)

John Knowles Paine

 * The Tempest, Op. 31 (ca.1876, after Shakespeare)
 * Poseidon and Amphitrite, Op. 44 (ca.1888)
 * Lincoln (ca.1904-06, incomplete)

Hubert Parry

 * From Death to Life (1914, retitled as "Symphonic Poem in 2 connected movements")

Florence Price

 * Ethiopia's Shadow in America (1929-32)
 * Songs of the Oak (1943)

Henri Rabaud

 * Procession nocturne, Op. 6 (after Nicolas Lenau, 1899)

Sergei Rachmaninoff

 * Manfred (1890-01, lost)
 * Prince Rostislav (1891)
 * The Rock, Op. 7 (1893)
 * Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (1908)

Joachim Raff

 * Volker for violin and piano, Op. 203 (1876)

Osmo Tapio Räihälä

 * Ardbeg (2003)
 * Barlinnie Nine (2005)
 * Rautasade (Iron Rain) (2008)

Ture Rangström

 * Dithyramb (1909, revised by Kurt Atterberg in 1948)
 * Ett Midsommarstycke (A Midsummer Piece, 1910)
 * En Höstsång (An Autumn Song, 1911)
 * Havet Sjunger (Song of the Sea, 1913)

Max Reger

 * Vier Tondichtungen nach A. Böcklin (Four Tone Poems after Arnold Böcklin) for orchestra, Op. 128 (1913)

Cemal Reşit Rey

 * Bebek Efsanesi, symphonic poem for orchestra
 * Karagöz
 * Denizciler Marşı Başlayış
 * Çağrılış
 * Fatih
 * Türkiye (1971)
 * Ellinci Yıla Giriş

Ottorino Respighi

 * Fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome), P 106 (1916); part I of Respighi's Roman Trilogy
 * Ballata delle gnomidi (Ballad of the Gnomes), P 124 (1919)
 * Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome), P 141 (1924); part II of Respighi's Roman Trilogy
 * Feste Romane (Roman Festivals), P 157 (1928); part III of Respighi's Roman Trilogy

Silvestre Revueltas

 * Cuauhnáhuac (1931, rev 1931–32)
 * Esquinas (1931, rev 1933)
 * Janitzio (1933, rev 1936)
 * Sensemayá (1937, rev 1938)

Josef Gabriel Rheinberger

 * Wallenstein, Op. 10 (1866-68, also his Symphony No. 1)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

 * Sadko Musical picture, Op.5 (1867, rev 1869 and 1892)
 * Antar Op. 9 (1868, rev 1875 and 1891)
 * Scheherazade Symphonic Suite, Op. 35 (1888)
 * Flight of the Bumblebee Orchestral interlude from the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1899-1900)
 * Night on Mount Triglav from the opera Mlada (1899-1901)

Albert Roussel

 * La Menace, Op. 9 (1908)
 * Evocations, Op. 15 (1910-11)
 * Elpénor, Op. 59 (1937)

Anton Rubinstein

 * Faust, Op. 68 (1864)
 * Ivan the Terrible, Op. 79 (1869)
 * Don Quixote, Op. 87 (1870)

Joseph Ryelandt

 * La Noche Oscura, Op. 25 (The Dark Night, 1899)
 * Idylle mystique, Op. 30 (1900-01)
 * Gethsemani, Op 42 (1908)

Camille Saint-Saëns

 * Spartacus (1863)
 * Le Rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 (1869)
 * Phaéton, Op. 39 (1873)
 * Danse macabre, Op. 40 (1874)
 * La Jeunesse d'Hercule, Op. 50 (1877)
 * La Muse et le Poète, Op. 132 (1910)

Vadim Salmanov

 * Forest (1948)

Giacinto Scelsi

 * Rotative for three pianos, winds and percussion (1929)

Philipp Scharwenka

 * Herbstfeier, Op. 44

Ernest Schelling

 * Légende Symphonique (1907)
 * Morocco (1927)

Arnold Schoenberg

 * Frühlings Tod (Fragment, 1898)
 * Verklärte Nacht, Op.4 (1899)
 * Pelleas und Melisande, Op.5 (1902–03)

Georg Schumann

 * Im Ringen um ein Ideal, Op. 66 (1916)

Cyril Scott

 * Disaster at Sea (1933, rev 1935 as "Neptune")

Alexander Scriabin

 * The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54 (1905–08); often listed as Symphony No. 4
 * Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60 (1910); often listed as Symphony No. 5

Johanna Senfter

 * Tonstück, Op. 102
 * Folge von heiteren stücke, Op. 130

Dmitri Shostakovich

 * From Karl Marx to Our Own Days for solo voices, chorus and orchestra (1932)
 * The Execution of Stepan Razin, Op. 119 (1964)
 * October, Op. 131 (1967)

Jean Sibelius
One of the most prolific (and significant) contributors to the genre; compositions marked with an asterisk were inspired by Finnish mythology:


 * Kullervo, Op. 7 (1891–1892, withdrawn 1893) * [considered variously as a choral symphony and as a cycle of five tone poems]
 * En saga, Op. 9 (1892, revised 1902)
 * Spring Song, Op. 16 (1894, revised 1895)
 * The Wood Nymph (The Wood Nymph), Op. 15 (1894–1895)
 * Lemminkäinen Suite (also known as Four Legends from the Kalevala), Op. 22 * [a cycle of four tone poems]
 * 1) Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of the Island (1895, revised 1897 and 1939) *
 * 2) The Swan of Tuonela (1893-1895, revised 1897 and 1900) *
 * 3) Lemminkäinen in Tuonela (1895, revised 1897 and 1939) *
 * 4) Lemminkäinen's Return (1895, revised 1897 and 1900) *
 * Finlandia, Op. 26 (1899, revised 1900); arranged from Press Celebrations Music, JS 137
 * Pohjola's Daughter, Op. 49 (1906) *
 * Nightride and Sunrise, Op. 55 (1909)
 * The Dryad, Op. 45/1 (1910)
 * Luonnotar, for soprano and orchestra, Op. 70 (1913); text from the Kalevala *
 * The Bard, Op. 64 (1913, revised 1913)
 * The Oceanides, Op. 73 (1913–1914, revised 1914)
 * Tapiola, Op. 112 (1926) *

Bedřich Smetana

 * Richard III, Op. 11/JB 1:70 (1857–58)
 * Valdštýnův tábor (Wallenstein's Camp), Op. 14/JB 1:72 (1858–59)
 * Hakon Jarl, Op. 16/JB 1:79 (1860–61)
 * Má vlast (My Homeland), JB 1:112 (1874–79); a cycle of six symphonic poems
 * 1) Vyšehrad (The High Castle)
 * 2) Vltava (The Moldau)
 * 3) Šárka
 * 4) Z českých luhů a hájů (From Bohemia's Woods and Fields)
 * 5) Tábor
 * 6) Blaník

David Stanley Smith

 * Darkness and Dawn, Op. 5 (1901)
 * The Djinns (1911)
 * The Golden Age, Op.40 (Cycle of five symphonic poems, 1916)
 * Vision of Isaiah, Op. 58 (1927)
 * Credo, Op. 85 (1941)
 * Triumph and peace for solo organ, Op. 88 (1942)
 * The Apostle, Op. 92 (1944)

Charlotte Sohy

 * Danse mystique, Op. 19 (Mystic dance, 1922)

William Grant Still

 * Darker America (1924)
 * Africa (1924–30)
 * Dismal Swamp (1933–36)
 * Kaintuck (1935)
 * Poem for Orchestra (1944)

Richard Strauss
One of the most prolific (and important) contributors to the genre. He preferred the term "tone poem," rather than "symphonic poem."
 * Aus Italien (From Italy), Op. 16 (1886)
 * Don Juan, Op. 20 (1888)
 * Macbeth, Op. 23 (1886–88)
 * Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), Op. 24 (1889)
 * Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), Op. 28 (1894–95)
 * Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra), Op. 30 (1896)
 * Don Quixote, Op. 35 (1897)
 * Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op. 40 (1898)
 * Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53 (1903)
 * Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), Op. 64 (1915)

Igor Stravinsky

 * Le chant du rossignol (Song of the Nightingale, 1917)

George Templeton Strong

 * Dance of the Dead, Op.11 (1878)
 * Darkness, Op.13 (1879)
 * Spring (ca.1879, lost)
 * Undine, Op. 14 (1882-83)
 * On the Ocean (1892, lost)
 * The Night (four symphonic poems, 1913)
 * To the Fields (1913, rev 1937)
 * Le Roi Arthur (King Arthur, 1890-91, rev 1915-6)
 * Une Vie d'Artiste (An Artist's life, 1919)
 * The Voyage (The Journey, 1929)

Josef Suk

 * Praga, Op. 26 (1904)
 * Pohádka Léta, Op. 29 (A Summer's Tale, 1908–09)
 * Ripening, Op. 34 (1912–17)
 * Cycle of Symphonic Poems from Czech History (1915–17)

Heikki Suolahti

 * Hades, Op. 10 (1932)

Evgeny Svetlanov

 * Daybreak in the Field (Symphonic Picture, 1949)
 * Daugava (1952)
 * Azov Mountain, Op.10
 * The Red Guelder-Rose

Sergei Taneyev

 * Oresteia (labeled as an "overture", but really a symphonic poem based on themes from his opera of the same name)

Karl Tausig

 * Manfred, after Byron (c1862-63, lost)
 * Der Triumph der Liebe (c1862-63, only 1 page survives)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

 * The Storm, Op. (posth.) 76 (1864)
 * Fatum, Op. 77 (1868)
 * Romeo and Juliet, overture-fantasy after Shakespeare, TH 42 (1869–70, r. 1880)
 * Francesca da Rimini, symphonic fantasia after Dante, Op. 32 (1876)
 * The Tempest, symphonic fantasia after Shakespeare, Op. 18 (1873)
 * Marche slave, Op. 31 (1876)
 * Hamlet, overture-fantasy, Op. 67a (1889)
 * The Voyevoda, Op. (posth.) 78 (1891)

Geirr Tveitt

 * Nykken (1957)

Galina Ustvolskaya

 * The Dream of Stepan Razin (1949)
 * The Hero's Exploit (1957, later renamed as "Poem No. 2")
 * Lights in the Steppe (1958, later renamed as "Poem No. 1")
 * Poem on Peace (1962)

Edgard Varèse

 * Apothéoses de l'océan (circa 1905, lost)
 * Bourgogne (circa 1908, lost)
 * Gargantua (lost)

Louis Vierne

 * Les djinns, Op. 35 for soprano and orchestra (1912)
 * Psyché, Op. 33 for soprano and orchestra (1914)
 * Éros, Op. 37 for soprano and orchestra (1916)

Johan Wagenaar

 * Saul en David, Op. 24 (1906)
 * Elverhoï, Op. 48 (1940)

Richard Wagner

 * Siegfried Idyll (1869–70)

Anton Webern

 * Im Sommerwind (actually 'Idyll after B. Wille', 1904)

Mieczysław Weinberg

 * Symphonic Poem, Op. 6 (1941)
 * Morning-Red, Op. 60 (1957)
 * The Banners of Peace, Op. 143 (1986)

Felix Weingartner

 * König Lear, Op. 20 (King Lear, 1895)
 * Das Gefilde der Seligen, Op. 21 (Fields of the Blessed, 1892)
 * La Burla, Op. 78 (a.k.a The Tempest)
 * Frühling, Op. 80

Eric Whitacre

 * Godzilla Eats Las Vegas (for winds, 1996)

Charles-Marie Widor

 * La Nuit de Walpurgis, Op. 60 (1887)

Ralph Vaughan Williams

 * In the Fen Country (1904, rev 1905 and 1907)

Sergei Vasilenko

 * Three Bloody Battles (1899-1900, after Tolstoy)
 * The Garden of Death, Op. 12 (1907-08, based on Wilde's The Canterville Ghost
 * Sappho, Op.14 (1909)
 * Hyrcus Nocturnus, Op 15 (1908–09, Flight of the Witches)
 * Au soleil, Op 17 (In the Rays of the Sun, 1910-11)

José Vianna da Motta

 * Inês de Castro ("Overture", 1886)
 * Invocação dos Lusíadas, Op. 19 (1897)

Adolf Wiklund

 * Summer Night and Sunrise, Op. 19 (1918)

Hugo Wolf

 * Penthesilea (1883–85)

Haydn Wood

 * Mannin Veen: Dear Isle of Man (1933)

Alexander von Zemlinsky

 * Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid), fantasy after Hans Christian Andersen (1902–03)

Kōsaku Yamada

 * The Dark Gate (1913, inspired by a poem by Rofu Miki)
 * Flower of Mandala (1913, inspired by a poem by Kazo Saito)