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 the cycle is similar to Smetana's "Má vlast" in overall scope. Henri Duparc's "Lenore" (1875) displayed a Wagnerian warmth in its writing and orchestration. Franck wrote the delicately evocative "Les Éolides", following it with the narrative "Le Chasseur maudit" and the piano-and-orchestral tone poem "Les Djinns", conceived in much the same manner as Liszt's "Totentanz". Ernest Chausson's "Vivane" illustrates the penchant shown by the Franck circle for mythological subjects. Claude Debussy's "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune" (1892-4), intended initially as part of a triptych, is, in the composer's words, "a very free ... succession of settings through which the Faun's