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
The Water Goblin notes. For this occasion Dvořák composed a letter stating his intentions and musical solutions for the translation of Erbens poem into music. The Water Goblin The Water Goblin (; initially published by N. Simrock with the English title The Water-Fay) is a symphonic poem, Op. 107 (B. 195), written by Antonín Dvořák in 1896. The source of inspiration for "The Water Goblin" was a poem found in a collection published by Karel Jaromír Erben under the title "Kytice". Four of the six symphonic poems that Dvořák composed were inspired by works of poetry found in that collection. Vodník tells a