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Which composer's tone poems do you enjoy the most?

posted 8 years ago by christomacin
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Some of the more famous and prolific composers of tone poems:
Franz Liszt, Bedrich Smetana, Camille Saint-Saens, Richard Strauss, Jean Sibelius, Arnold Bax

I think Strauss and Sibelius are the clear leaders in this genre. What do you think?

[–] christomacin 8 years ago

I think Berwald's music was hardly ever even played until the 20th century, so there was little chance of it making much of an impact regardless of whatever its qualities might be.