The Finnish 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. The poems in the set are: 'Alone', 'Evening Star', Hymn', 'A Dream', and 'To One in Paradise.' Poulsen has also set a letter of Poe, a letter of Maria Clemm, and the valentine poem of Virginia Poe to music. The Des Moines Symphony premiered the work in 1999 with Robin Roewe, tenor. The song cycle was orchestrated in 1998 with a commission from Jack and Dawn Taylor of Des Moines, Iowa. The American composer James Poulsen composed 'Five Poems of Edgar Allan Poe' for medium high voice and piano in 1986. The Usher Waltz has been recorded by John Williams and Elena Papandreou.

The Russian composer Nikita Koshkin wrote the 1984 piece Usher Valse (Usher Waltz) for solo guitar, depicting Usher's frenzied guitar performance in the short story 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. The American composer Philip Glass wrote the 1978 The Fall of the House of Usher to a libretto by Arthur Yorinks. A lesser-known American composer, Edgar Stillman Kelley (1857–1944) wrote a piece for orchestra entitled The Pit and the Pendulum. The American conductor and composer Leonard Slatkin composed a setting of The Raven for narrator and symphony orchestra in 1971. In 1913, Sergei Rachmaninoff set his choral symphony The Bells to a Russian translation of Poe's poem of the same name. In 1907, American composer Grace Chadbourne set Poe's text to music with her 'Hymn for Solo Voice: At Morn, at Noon, at Twilight Dim.' 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'. Claude Debussy wrote an unfinished opera based on 'The Fall of the House of Usher.'

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