George Enescu (1881 - 1955)
Rhapsody Rumanian Rhapsody Op. 11, No.1
Rumanian Rhapsody Op. 11, No.2

Antonin Dvořák (1841 - 1904)
Slavonic Rhapsody Op. 45, No.3
Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) Hungarian Rhapsody, No.2 (No.12)

Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)
Spanish Rhapsody

In ancient Greece, The source of the word, a rhapsody was part of an episodic poem, chanted by the rhapsodist, one section stitched, as it were, to the next. The early nineteenth century found a new use for the word. In Prague the Bohemian composer Vaclav Tomasek plundered the vocabulary of classical Greece for his piano Eclogues, Dithyrambs and a series of fifteen Rhapsodies. The last term, at least, caught on, and the century saw a continuing use of the word to describe composition in free form, often highly dramatic and equally often turning to national themes.

Franz Liszt added particularly to the rhapsodic repertoire with his ni