Editing List of program music (section)

=== [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]] ===

* [[Romeo and Juliet (Tchaikovsky)|''Romeo and Juliet'']] Fantasy Overture (1869; revised 1870, 1880)
* [[The Tempest (Tchaikovsky)|''The Tempest'']] Symphonic Fantasia after Shakespeare, Op. 18 (1873)
* [[Hamlet (Tchaikovsky)|''Hamlet'']] Overture-Fantasia, Op. 67a (1888)
**The above three works are based on plays by [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]
* [[Francesca da Rimini (Tchaikovsky)|''Francesca da Rimini'']], Op. 32 (1876) is based on [[Dante]]'s ''Inferno''.
* [[Manfred Symphony|''Manfred'']] Symphony in four scenes after the dramatic poem by [[Byron]], Op. 58
* The [[1812 Overture]] (1882) famously uses different themes to represent the [[France|French]] and [[Russia]]n armies in the [[Napoleonic Wars]], and concludes with the firing of cannons and the ringing of the church bells.