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The symphonic poem did not enjoy as clear a sense of national identity in other countries, even though numerous works of the kind were written.

Composers included Arnold Bax and Frederick Delius in Great Britain ; Edward MacDowell, Howard Hanson, Ferde Grofe and George Gershwin in the United States ; Carl Nielsen in Denmark ; Mieczysław Karłowicz in Poland and Ottorino Respighi in Italy.

Also, with the rejection of Romantic ideals in the 20th century and their replacement with ideals of abstraction and independence of music, the writing of symphonic poems went into decline.

Jazz musician and composer Charles Mingus wrote the tone poem Pithecanthropus Erectus to tell the story of the evolution of man and his eventual downfall.