"Who wrote the symphonic poem ""Finlandia""?"
Symphonic poem most basic principles—the symphony's traditional claims of weight, musical abstraction, gravitas and formal dialogue with seminal works of the past; and the tone poem's structural innovation and spontaneity, identifiable poetic content and inventive sonority. However, the stylistic distinction between symphony, "fantasy" and tone poem in Sibelius's late works becomes blurred since ideas first sketched for one piece ended up in another. One of Sibelius's greatest works, Finlandia, focuses on Finnish independence. He wrote it in 1901 and added choral lyrics - the Finlandia Hymn by Veikko Antero Koskenniemi - to the central part after Finland became independent. The symphonic poem
Symphonic poem Therefore, other than Strauss and numerous concert overtures by others, there are only isolated symphonic poems by German and Austrian composers—Hans von Bülow's "Nirwana" (1866), Hugo Wolf's " Penthesilea" (1883-5) and Arnold Schoenberg's "Pelleas und Melisande" (1902-3). Because of its clear relationship between poem and music, Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht" (1899) for string sextet has been characterised as a non-orchestral 'symphonic poem'. Alexander Ritter, who himself composed six symphonic poems in the vein of Liszt's works, directly influenced Richard Strauss in writing program music. Strauss wrote on a wide range of subjects, some of which had been previously considered unsuitable to