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
Symphonic poem a vehicle for the nationalist ideas fomenting in their respective countries at this time. Bedřich Smetana visited Liszt in Weimar in the summer of 1857, where he heard the first performances of the "Faust Symphony" and the symphonic poem "Die Ideale". Influenced by Liszt's efforts, Smetana began a series of symphonic works based on literary subjects—"Richard III" (1857-8), "Wallenstein's Camp" (1858-9) and "Hakon Jarl" (1860–61). A piano work dating from the same period, "Macbeth a čarodějnice" ("Macbeth and the Witches", 1859), is similar in scope but bolder in style. Musicologist John Clapham writes that Smetana planned these works as "a