Symphonic poem Borodin's "In the Steppes of Central Asia" "powerful orchestral pictures, each unique in its composer's output". Titled a "musical portrait", "In the Steppes of Central Asia" evokes the journey of a caravan across the steppes. "Night on Bald Mountain", especially its original version, contains harmony that is often striking, sometimes pungent and highly abrasive; its initial stretches especially pull the listener into a world of uncompromisingly brutal directness and energy. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote only two orchestral works that rank as symphonic poems, his "musical tableau" "Sadko" (1867–92) and "Skazka" ("Legend", 1879–80), originally titled "Baba-Yaga". While this may perhaps be surprising,
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