Symphonic poem Tchaikovsky's work as "Isle of the Dead" (1909) does its independence from it. A similar debt to his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov imbues Igor Stravinsky's "The Song of the Nightingale", excerpted from his opera "The Nightingale". Alexander Scriabin's "The Poem of Ecstasy" (1905–08) and "" (1908–10), in their projection of an egocentric theosophic world unequalled in other symphonic poems, are notable for their detail and advanced harmonic idiom. Socialist realism in the Soviet Union allowed program music to survive longer there than in western Europe, as typified by Dmitri Shostakovich's symphonic poem "October" (1967). While France was less concerned than other countries
Les Djinns (poem) was set to various adaptations or transpositions in other arts, such as "Les Djinns" (op. 12, 1875) by Gabriel Fauré, for mixed choir, or the symphonic poem "Les Djinns" (FWV 45), composed by César Franck in 1884. Les Djinns (poem) Les Djinns is one of the most famous poems of French author Victor Hugo, published in 1829 in his collection "Les Orientales". "Les Djinns" is distinguished by its very original form, in "crescendo" and "decrescendo": the strophes have a different number of syllables, respectively 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 and finally