Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Eventyr (Once Upon a Time) is a tone poem for orchestra composed by Frederick Delius in 1917. It was given its premiere in London on 11 January 1919 under the direction of Henry Wood. Eventyr means adventure and the inspiration for the piece was a fairy tale from Norway. After a twenty-bar introduction a fantastic theme is played first by the bassoons and then by the other woodwinds.