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.)
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 Janécek
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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