60 Greatest Classical Music Tone Poems

Classical music composers Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Modest Mussorgsky
Criteria: Tone Poems are ranked for their innovation and influence, as well as their aesthetic importance, historical significance and lasting popularity.
(Tone Poem: Orchestral music based on an extra musical idea.)

Last Updated: 2017-10-29
1. Pictures at an Exhibition - Modest Mussorgsky / Maurice Ravel
2. Prelude a L'apres Midi D'un Faune - Claude Debussy
3. Scheherezade - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
4. La Mer - Claude Debussy
5. Till Eulenspiegels - Richard Strauss
6. Finlandia - Jean Sibelius
7. Midsummer Night's Dream Incidental Music - Felix Mendelssohn
8. Les Preludes - Franz Liszt
9. Also Sprach Zarathustra - Richard Strauss
10. American in Paris - George Gershwin
11. Night on Bald Mountain - Modest Mussorgsky
12. The Moldau (from Ma Vlast) - Bedrick Smetana
13. Carnival of the Animals - Camille Saint-Saëns
14. Ein Heldenleben - Richard Strauss
15. Sinfonietta - Leos Janácek
16. Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 - Edvard Grieg
17. The Planets - Gustav Holst
18. Don Juan - Richard Strauss
19. La Valse - Maurice Ravel
20. Siegfried Idyll - Richard Wagner
21. The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Paul Dukas
22. Peter & the Wolf - Serge Prokofiev
23. Nocturnes - Claude Debussy
24. Death and Transfiguration - Richard Strauss
25. Swan of Tuonela - Jean Sibelius
26. The Pines of Rome - Ottorino Respighi
27. Fountains of Rome - Ottorino Respighi
28. Lieutenant Kije Suite - Serge Prokofiev
29. Don Quixote - Richard Strauss
30. El Salon Mexico - Aaron Copland
31. The Lark Ascending - Ralph Vaughan Williams
32. Iberia (from Images) - Claude Debussy
33. Three Places in New England - Charles Ives
34. Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns
35. L'Arlesienne Suites - Georges Bizet
36. Tapiola - Jean Sibelius
37. On Hearing the 1st Cuckoo in Spring - Frederick Delius
38. Isle of the Dead - Sergei Rachmaninoff
39. The Unanswered Question - Charles Ives
40. Pelleas et Melisande Suite - Gabriel Faure
41. In the Steppes of Central Asia - Alexander Borodin
42. Francesca da Rimini - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
43. In a Summer Garden - Frederick Delius
44. Taras Bulba - Leos Janacek
45. Rosamunde Incidental Music - Franz Schubert
46. Pacific 231 - Arthur Honegger
47. En Saga - Jean Sibelius
48. Tasso - Franz Liszt
49. Ein Alpine Sinfonie - Richard Strauss
50. Roman Festivals - Ottorino Respighi
51. From Bohemia's Woods and Fields (from Ma Vlast) - Bedrick Smetana
52. Summer Night on a River - Frederick Delius
53. Les Eolides - Cesar Franck
54. The Comedians - Dmitri Kabalevsky
55. Mazeppa - Franz Liszt
56. Karelia Suite - Jean Sibelius
57. Falstaff - Edward Elgar
58. Tintagel - Arnold Bax
59. Divertissement - Jacques Ibert
60. Chasseur Maudit - Cesar Franck








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