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 Swan of Tuonela" (1895) is a tone poem from Jean Sibelius's "Lemminkäinen Suite", and "Vltava" ("The Moldau") by Bedřich Smetana is part of the six-work cycle "Má vlast". While the terms "symphonic poem" and "tone poem" have often been used interchangeably, some composers such as Richard Strauss and Jean Sibelius have preferred the latter term for their works. The first use of the German term "Tondichtung" (tone poem) appears to have been by Carl Loewe, applied not to an orchestral work but to his piece for piano solo, "Mazeppa", Op. 27 (1828), based on the poem of that name by