50 Greatest Tone Poems

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. American in Paris – George Gershwin
8. Night on Bald Mountain - Modest Mussorgsky
9. The Moldau (from Ma Vlast) – Bedrick Smetana
10. Carnival of the Animals - Camille Saint-Saëns
11. La Valse - Maurice Ravel
12. Don Juan - Richard Strauss
13. Les Preludes – Franz Liszt
14. The Planets – Gustav Holst
15. Siegfried Idyll - Richard Wagner
16. The Sorcerer's Apprentice – Paul Dukas
17. Death and Transfiguration - Richard Strauss
18. Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 – Edvard Grieg
19. Also Sprach Zarathustra - Richard Strauss
20. Peter & the Wolf – Serge Prokofiev
21. Ein Heldenleben - Richard Strauss
22. Swan of Tuonela - Jean Sibelius
23. Nocturnes - Claude Debussy
24. The Pines of Rome – Ottorino Respighi
25. Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saens
26. Fountains of Rome - Ottorino Respighi
27. In the Steppes of Central Asia – Alexander Borodin
28. Francesca da Rimini - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
29. Midsummer Night's Dream Incidental Music – Felix Mendelssohn
30. El Salon Mexico – Aaron Copland
31. The Lark Ascending - Ralph Vaughan Williams
32. L’Arlesienne Suites - Georges Bizet
33. Don Quixote - Richard Strauss
34. On Hearing the 1st Cuckoo in Spring – Frederick Delius
35. Tapiola - Jean Sibelius
36. Ein Alpine Sinfonie - Richard Strauss
37. Iberia (from Images) - Claude Debussy
38. Sinfonietta - Leos Janácek
39. Lieutenant Kije Suite - Serge Prokofiev
40. Isle of the Dead – Sergei Rachmaninoff
41. The Unanswered Question - Charles Ives
42. Pelleas et Melisande Suite – Gabriel Faure
43. Taras Bulba – Leos Janacek
44. Mazeppa - Franz Liszt
45. Masquerade Suite – Aram Khachaturian
46. Tasso - Franz Liszt
47. Chasseur Maudit – Cesar Franck
48. In a Summer Garden - Frederick Delius
49. Three Places in New England – Charles Ives
50. Rosamunde Incidental Music - Franz Schubert

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Would the Enigma Variations be considered a tone poem?

No . . .