Poème was written in response to a request from Eugène Ysaÿe for a violin concerto. Chausson felt unequal to the task of a concerto, writing to Ysaÿe: I hardly know where to begin with a concerto, which is a huge undertaking, the devil's own task. But I can cope with a shorter work. It will be in very free form with several passages in which the violin plays alone.

Date of composition 1896 in Florence, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy
Premiered 1896, December 27th (Conservatoire) in Nancy, France
First published 1898
Dedicated to Eugène Ysaÿe
Catalogue Op. 25
Approx. duration 16 minutes
Instruments Violin
Orchestra
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Ernest Chausson: Poème, Op. 25
Ernest Chausson: Poème, Op. 25