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
Simon the Sorcerer released on the iOS App Store, Steam and GOG.com on 3 April 2018. A sequel, "", was released in 1995. "Simon the Sorcerer" received critical acclaim: across all platforms, the humour and visuals in particular were commended, although criticisms included the controls and the game's linear nature. The game's global sales surpassed 600,000 units by September 1999. The Amiga version received generally high ratings. "CU Amiga" praised the high quality graphics and how much fun the game was to play. "Amiga Computing"s Simon Clays also praised the graphics and the locations, saying the locations' stylisation made the game resemble a