These works were published by Hinshaw Music, Inc. A ballet based on a story by Poe is Hop-Frog, a 2009 ballet by Terry Brown.Īmerican composer Dominick Argento wrote an opera, based on the death of Poe.Īmerican composer Emma Lou Diemer set "A Dream Within A Dream" and "Eldorado" for mixed chorus and piano. Other operas based on stories by Poe are Ligeia, a 1994 opera by Augusta Read Thomas, and The Tell-Tale Heart by Bruce Adolphe. In 1913, Sergei Rachmaninoff set his choral symphony The Bells to a Russian translation of Poe's eponymous poem.įinnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara based his 1997 choral fantasy "On the Last Frontier" on the final two paragraphs of Poe's novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Īndré Caplet's Conte fantastique for harp and strings, published in 1924 but begun at least as early as 1909, is a musical retelling of " The Masque of the Red Death". Leon Botstein, conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra - which presented a program of "Tales From Edgar Allan Poe" in 1999 - noted that in the realm of classical music, as in literature, Poe's influence was felt more deeply in Europe than in America. John Williams - Usher Waltz (Nikita Koshkin)-0
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