Music like Edgar Allan Poets

The influence of Edgar Allan Poe on the art of music has been considerable and long-standing, with the works, life and image of the horror fiction writer and poet inspiring composers and musicians from diverse genres for more than a century.

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.

André Caplet'sConte fantastiquefor 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".

In 1913, Sergei Rachmaninoff set his choral symphonyThe Bellsto a Russian translation of Poe's eponymous poem.