Symphonic poem temporary stop to the debate as to whether the genre was dead. Nevertheless, composers began to explore the "more compact form" of the concert overture "...as a vehicle within which to blend musical, narrative and pictoral ideas." Examples included Mendelssohn's overtures "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1826) and "The Hebrides" (1830). Between 1845 and 1847, the Belgian composer César Franck wrote an orchestral piece based on Victor Hugo's poem "Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne". The work exhibits characteristics of a symphonic poem, and some musicologists, such as Norman Demuth and Julien Tiersot, consider it the first of its genre, preceding
Tragic Overture (Dvořák) Press, 2006. Tragic Overture (Dvořák) The Tragic Overture, B. 16a (also called the Dramatic Overture; ) is an orchestral composition written in 1870 by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. It was Dvořák's overture to his first, never published, opera "Alfred". Šourek's book "Orchestral Works of Antonín Dvořák" has a complete description of the "Tragic Overture". It was first performed on 1 April 1905, almost one year after Dvořák's death. Dramatic Overture: It is a 1 movement work, usually in a sonata-allegro form, it encapsulates in music the essential dramatic events of an opera or play. Jarmil Burghauser: Antonín Dvořák. Prague: