The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) Romantic genre of programmatic music, which composers like Franz Liszt, Claude Debussy, Jean Sibelius and Richard Strauss increasingly explored as an alternative to earlier symphonic forms. Unlike other tone poems, such as "La mer" by Debussy or "Finlandia" by Sibelius, Dukas's work is, like works such as "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" by Strauss, descriptively programmatic, closely following the events described in the Goethe poem. It was customary, in fact, to publish the poem as part of the orchestral score. The instrumentation of the piece consists of two flutes and piccolo, two oboes, two soprano clarinets and bass clarinet, three bassoons
Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer the Festival of the Dead' and 'The Lantern of the Supreme Moment' as the two I enjoyed the most." Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer is a collection of fantasy short stories by American writer Darrell Schweitzer featuring his dark fantasy protagonist, the child sorcerer Sekenre, a sequel to the novel "The Mask of the Sorcerer" (1995). The book was illustrated by Stephen Fabian. It was first published as a trade paperback by Wildside Press in 2004. The collection consists of twelve stories of Sekenre, originally published from 1994-2004 in a number of fantasy