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 Respighiana Di Vittorio, also through Rossini's influence on the music of Respighi. The overture received its world premiere by the Chamber Orchestra of New York under the composer, on February 13, 2010 at the Church of St. Jean Baptiste in New York. The overture was recorded for Naxos Records:8.572333. This work was published in 2008 by Edizioni Panastudio in Italy. Overture Respighiana Overture Respighiana ("Overtura Respighiana") was composed by Salvatore Di Vittorio in 2008, as an homage to Ottorino Respighi. The work was written one year before Di Vittorio's completion of Respighi's rediscovered first Violin Concerto in A Major. The overture