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
Overture of the Wicked of Iced Earth's Box of the Wicked collection. The four songs features most of the band's October 2006-March 2007 lineup, with guitarist Jon Schaffer playing bass, as former bassist James "Bo" Wallace left before recording began. "Overture of the Wicked" is the only official Iced Earth release with former guitarist Tim Mills, and the first with drummer Brent Smedley since 1999's "The Melancholy E.P.". On the reasoning behind doing the EP, Tim Owens said: Overture of the Wicked Overture of the Wicked is an EP by Iced Earth, which was released on June 4, 2007 in Europe and June 5,