This is a list of some notable composers who wrote symphonic poems.
Hugo Alfvén En skärgardssägen, Op. 20 (1903)
Frederic Austin Isabella or the Pot of Basil (1909, after the poem by John Keats)
Edgar Bainton Pompilia (1903) Paracelsus, Op. 8 (1904, after the poem by Robert Browning) Thalassa (1933, reworked into his Symphony No. 2 in D minor between 1939–40)
Mily Balakirev Russia Second Overture on Russian Themes (1863–64, revised 1884) In Bohemia Overture on Czech Themes (1867, revised 1905) Tamara (1867–82)
Béla Bartók Kossuth (1903)
Arnold Bax Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan (1905) Into the Twilight (1908) In the Faëry Hills (1909) Rosc-catha (1910) Christmas Eve (1912, r. 1921) Nympholept (1912, orch. 1915, r. 1935) The Garden of Fand (1913, orch. 1916) Spring Fire (1913) In Memoriam (1916) November Woods (1917) Tintagel (1917, orch. 1919) Summer Music (1917, orch. 1921, r. 1932) The Happy Forest (1922) The Tale the Pine Trees Knew (1931) Northern Ballad No. 1 (1927) Northern Ballad No. 2 (1934) Prelude for a Solemn Occasion (Northern Ballad No. 3) (1927, orch. 1933) A Legend (1944)
Paul Ben-Haim Pan for soprano and orchestra, Op. 13 (1931) Yizkor (Evocation) for violin and orchestra (1942)
Natanael Berg Traumgewalten (1910) Varde ljus! (1914)
Hector Berlioz Chasse royale et orage from the Opera Les Troyens (1856–58)
Franz Berwald Slaget vid Leipzig (The Battle of Leipzig, 1828) Elfenspiel (Play of the Elves, 1841) Ernste und heitere Grillen (Serious and Merry Whims, 1842) Erinnerung an die norwegischen Alpen (Reminiscence of the Norwegian Mountains, 1842) Bayaderen-Fest (Festival of the Bayadères, 1842) Wettlauf (Racing, 1842)
Adolphe Biarent Trenmor (1905, after a legend from Ossian)
Arthur H. Bird Eine Karneval-Szene, Op. 5 (A Carnival Scene, 1886)
Ernest Bloch Vivre-aimer (1900) Hiver-printemps (1904–05) Voice in the Wilderness (1936)
Mel Bonis Salomé, Op. 100 (1909, unpublished) Ophélie, Op. 165 (published in 2018) Le Rêve de Cléopâtre, Op. 180 (The dream of Cleopatra, published in 2018)
Hjalmar Borgstrøm Hamlet, Op. 13 (1903) Jesus i Gethsemane, Op. 14 (Jesus in Gethsemane, 1904) John Gabriel Borkman, Op. 15 (1905) Die Nacht der Toten, Op. 16 (The Night of the Dead, 1905) Tanken, Op. 26 (The Idea, 1917)
Alexander Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia (actually 'Musical Picture'; 1880)
Sergei Bortkiewicz Othello, Op. 19 (1914)
Rutland Boughton A Summer Night (1899, rev 1903) Imperial Elegy: Into the Everlasting (1901) Troilus and Cressida (Thou and I) (1902) Love in Spring (1906) Midnight for Chorus & Orchestra (1907)
Lili Boulanger D'un matin de printemps (A spring morning, 1918) D'un soir triste (A sad evening, 1918)
York Bowen The Lament of Tasso, Op.5 (1902) Symphonic Fantasia, Op.16 (1905)
Henry Brant Curriculum ll: Spatial Tone Poem
Havergal Brian Hero and Leander Op. 8 (1904–06, lost) Humorous Legend on Three Blind Mice (1908–09, withdrawn) In Memoriam (1910) Doctor Merryheart Comedy Overture No. 1 (1911-2) The Battle Song (sketched between 1930 and 1931, completed by John Pickard in 1997) Elegy (1954)
Frank Bridge Mid of the Night (1903) Isabella (1907, after John Keats) Summer (1914–15) Enter Spring (1926–27)
Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff Manfred (c.1901)
Alfred Bruneau La belle au bois dormant (The sleeping beauty, 1894)
Ferrucio Busoni Symphonisches Tongedicht, Op. 31a (1893)
Alfredo Casella Pagine di Guerra for four-hand piano (1915, revised and orchestrated in 1918) A Notte Alta, Op. 30 for solo piano (1917, arranged for piano and orchestra in 1921)
George Whitefield Chadwick Symphonic Sketches (1895-1904) Cleopatra (1904) Aphrodite Symphonic Fantasy (1910–11) Tam o' Shanter, Symphonic Ballad (1914–15) Angel of Death (1917–18)
Ernest Chausson Viviane (1882, rev 1887)
Frederic Cliffe Cloud and Sunshine (1890)
James Cohn A Song of the Waters, Op. 53 (1976)
Claude Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, 1891–94) La Mer (The Sea, 1903–05, rev 1908)
Frederick Delius Hiawatha (1887-8, completed by Robert Threlfall) Three Small Tone-poems, VI/7 (1890) Summer Evening Winter Night (or, Sleigh Ride) Spring Morning Paa Vidderne (On the Mountains), VI/10 (1890–92) Over the Hills and Far Away, VI/11 (1895–97); fantasy overture for orchestra Paris: The Song of a Great City, VI/14 (1899-1900); nocturne for orchestra Two Pieces for Small Orchestra, VI/19 (1911–12) On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring Summer Night on the River Eventyr (Once Upon a Time), VI/23 (1917) A Song of Summer, VI/26 (1929–30)
Felix Draeseke Julius Caesar (1860, rev 1865) Frithjof (1865) Der Thunersee (1903)
Paul Dukas L'apprenti sorcier (The Sorcerer's Apprentice), symphonic scherzo after Goethe (1896–97) Le fil de parque (c.1908, projected or destroyed)
Henri Duparc Aux étoiles (only extant movement from the Poème nocturne, 1874) Lénore (1875)
Antonín Dvořák Rhapsody in A minor, Op. 14 (1874) Vodník (The Water Goblin), Op. 107 (1896) Polednice (The Noon Witch), Op. 108 (1896) Zlatý kolovrat (The Golden Spinning Wheel), Op. 109 (1896) Holoubek (The Wild Dove), Op. 110 (1896; r. 1897) Píseň bohatýrská (A Hero's Song), Op. 111 (1897)
George Dyson Siena (1907, lost)
Edward Elgar Cockaigne (In London Town) (1900–01) In the South (Alassio) (1903–04) Falstaff Symphonic Study in C minor, Op. 68 (1913)
Ben Emberley Elagabalus, Op.19 (2026)
George Enescu Isis (unfinished, 1923; completed by Pascal Bentoiu) Vox maris, Op. 31 (1929–54)
Óscar Esplá El sueño de Eros (The dream of Eros, 1912) Don Quijote velando las armas (Don Quixote guarding the weapons, 1924)
Harry Farjeon Mowgli (1907) Summer Vision (1913, lost) Pannychis (1942)
Lorenzo Ferrero La Nueva España, a set of six symphonic poems (1992–99)
Zdeněk Fibich Othello, Op. 6 (1873) Spring, Op 13 (1881) Záboj, Slavoj a Luděk, Op. 37 (1873) The Tempest, Op. 46 (1880) Toman and the Wood Nymph, Op. 49 (1874–75)
Josef Bohuslav Foerster Mé Mládí, Op. 44 (My Youth, 1900) Jaro a touha, Op. 93 (Springtime and Desire, 1912)
César Franck Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne, symphonic poem after Victor Hugo, (1846) Rédemption, for soprano, chorus and orchestra, M. 52 (1872, r. 1874) Les Éolides, M. 43 (1875–76) Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Huntsman), M. 44 (1881–82) Les Djinns, for piano and orchestra, M. 45 (1884) Psyché, for orchestra and chorus, M. 47 (1886–88)
Arthur Friedheim Transitions (unknown date)
Edward German Hamlet (1897) The Willow Song (a.k.a. "Othello", 1922)
George Gershwin An American in Paris (1928, actually 'Tone Poem') Cuban Overture (1932, conceived as a symphonic poem)
Ruth Gipps Knight in Armour, Op. 8 (1942) Death on a Pale Horse, Op. 25 (1943)
Alexander Glazunov Stenka Razin, Op. 13 (1885)
Reinhold Glière The Sirens, Op. 33 (1908) The Zaporozhy Cossacks, Op. 64 (1921) The Bequest, Op. 73 (1941)
Karl Goldmark Zrínyi, Op. 47 (1903)
Geoffrey Gordon Shock Diamonds (1968)
Eugene Aynsley Goossens Perseus, Op. 3 (1912) The Eternal Rhythm, Op. 5 (1913)
Percy Grainger Train Music (1901–57)
Čestmír Gregor Čekání (Waiting, 1942) Děti Daidalovy (Daedalus' Children, 1961)
Ferde Grofé Knute Rockne (1931) Rip Van Winkle (1932-1954, reworked into "Hudson River Suite") Trylon and Perisphere (1939, later renamed as "Black Gold") Atlantic Crossing (1965)
Ernest Guiraud Chasse fantastique (1887)
Henry Kimball Hadley Salome, Op. 55 (1905) Lucifer, Op. 66 (1914) Othello, Op. 96 (1919) The Ocean, Op. 99 (1921)
Howard Hanson Before the Dawn (1920) Exaltation, Op. 20 (1920) North and West (1923) Lux aeterna, Op. 24 (1923–26) Pan and the Priest, Op. 26 (1926)
Karl Amadeus Hartmann Miserae (1933–34, previously titled Symphony No. 1)
Hamilton Harty With the Wild Geese (1910) The Children of Lir (1938)
Alfred Hill The Lost Hunter (1945)
Joseph Holbrooke The Raven, Op. 25 (1899-1900, rev 1903) Ode to Victory. Op. 29 (1901, destroyed) The Viking, Op. 32 (1901, rev 1912) Ulalume, Op. 35 (1903) The Birds of Rhiannon, Op. 87 (c.1922)
Lee Holdridge Scenes of Summer (1973)
Augusta Holmès Hymne à Apollon (Hymn to Apollo, 1872) Les Argonautes (The Argonauts, 1880) Irlande (Ireland, 1882) Andromède (Andromeda, 1883) Pologne (Poland, 1883) La Nuit et l'Amour ("Night and love" interlude from the ode "Ludus pro Patria", 1888)
Gustav Holst Indra, Op 13 (1903) Egdon Heath, Op. 47 (1927)
Arthur Honegger Pastorale d'été (1920) Pacific 231 Symphonic Movement No. 1 (1924) Rugby Symphonic Movement No. 2 (1928) Radio-panoramique (1935)
Alan Hovhaness Copernicus, Op. 338 (1960) Komachi 7 miniature tone poems for piano, Op. 240 (1971)
Airat Ichmouratov David of Sassoun, symphonic poem after Armenian epos, Op. 11 (2006) The Letter from an Unknown Woman, for Strings, Op. 56 (2017)
Vincent d'Indy La Divine Comédie (The Divine Comedy after Dante, 1871) Poème des montagnes for piano, Op. 15 (Poem of the Mountains, 1881) Istar, Op. 42 (1896)
John Ireland The Forgotten Rite (1913) Mai-Dun (1921)
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov On the Volga, Op. 50 (1910)
Jānis Ivanovs Varavīksne (Rainbow, 1939) Lāčplēsis (Lacplesis, 1957) Poema Luttuoso for string orchestra (1966) Novella Brevis (1982)
Charles Ives Central Park in the Dark (1906, rev 1936) The Unanswered Question (1908, rev 1930–35) The General Slocum (Sketched 1909–10, three completions made, most notably the one by D.G. Porter)
Zhu Jian'er Ode to the Motherland, Op. 13 (1959) Wonders of Naxi, Op. 25 (1984) Mountain Soul, Op. 39 (1995) A Hundred Years of Vicissitudes, Op. 41 (1996)
Dmitry Kabalevsky Spring, Op. 65 (1960) The Eternal Flame in Bryansk, Op. 85 (1968?)
Manolis Kalomiris Minas, the Rebel Corsair of the Aegean (1940) The Death of the Valiant Woman (1943, rev 1944–45)
Artur Kapp Saatus (Fate, 1925)
Sigfrid Karg-Elert Prinz Karneval (1908)
Mieczysław Karłowicz Returning Waves, Op. 9 (1904) Eternal Songs, Op. 10 (1906) Lithuanian Rhapsody, Op. 11 (1906) Stanisław i Anna Oświecimowie, Op. 12 (1906) A Sorrowful Tale, Op. 13 (1907–08) An Episode during Masquerade, Op. 14 (1908–09)
Hugo Kaun Vineta, Op. 16 (1886) Im Urwald, Op.43 (1901, based on Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha) Sir John Falstaff, Op. 60 (1904)
Paul von Klenau Paolo und Francesca (1913) Jahrmarkt bei London (1922)
Lev Knipper On the Mountain Pass (1940) Tales about the New Land (1958–60) Letters to a Girl Friend (1961)
Victor Kolar Hiawatha (circa 1908) A Fairy Tale (circa 1913)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Tomorrow for mezzo-soprano, women's choir and orchestra, Op. 31 (1944, from the movie The Constant Nymph)
László Lajtha In Memoriam, Op. 35 (1941)
Artur Lemba Symphonic Poem (1957, dedicated to the 40 anniversary of the October Revolution)
Franz Liszt Liszt's symphonic poems: Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne (1848-9) (after Victor Hugo) Tasso: lamento e trionfo (1849) (after Byron) Les Préludes, after Lamartine (1848, rev. before 1854) Orpheus (1853-4) Prometheus (1850) Mazeppa (1851) Festklänge (1853) Héroïde funèbre (1849–50) Hungaria (1854) Hamlet (1858) Hunnenschlacht (1857) Die Ideale (1857) (after Schiller) Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (1881-2)
William Lloyd Webber Aurora (1948)Aurora
Sergei Lyapunov Zelazowa Wola, Op. 37 (1909) Hashish, Op. 53 (1914)
Borys Lyatoshynsky Возз’єднання, Op. 49 (Reunification, 1949–50) Grazyna, Op 58 (1955) На берегах Вислы, Op. 59 (On the Banks of the Vistula, 1958) Lyric poem "To the Memory of Gliere", Op. 66 (1964)
Edward MacDowell Hamlet and Ophelia, Op. 22 (1884) Lancelot and Elaine, Op.25 (1886) Lamia, Op. 29 (1888) Die Sarazenen & Die schöne Aldâ, Op.30 (1886–90)
Leevi Madetoja Kullervo, Op. 15 (1913) Sammon ryöstö (The Abduction of The Sampo), for baritone and male choir, Op. 24 (1915); text from the Kalevala