solennelle – En hommage à Pierre Boulez 90, for orchestra (2015) Alexandre Tansman's Hommage à Chopin (for guitar) Heitor Villa-Lobos's Hommage à Chopin for piano solo Paraphrase Liszt's Paraphrase on the "Dies Irae", which he called Totentanz Rhapsody Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (probably the most famous of the many works based on Niccolò Paganini's Caprice No. 24 in A minor for solo violin) Reminiscences Liszt's Réminiscences de Don Juan (based on themes from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni) Tombeau Maurice Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin Manuel de Falla's Le Tombeau de Debussy Arthur Benjamin's Le Tombeau de Ravel Use of composer's name or an associated name Examples of the use of a composer's name as the title of a work include: Nicolas Isouard's opera Cimarosa (1808), after the eponymous composer Albert Lortzing's singspiel Szenen aus Mozarts Leben (1832), on Mozart's life Robert Schumann named two sections of his piano work Carnaval after Paganini and Chopin Alessandro Stradella's life was the basis for some operas with the title Stradella by Louis Niedermeyer (1837), César Franck (1841) and Friedrich von Flotow's Alessandro Stradella (1844) Emilio Arrieta's opera Pergolesi (1851), after this composer Johann Joseph Abert's opera Astorga (1866), a fictional work based on Emanuele d'Astorga's life Joachim Raff's opera Benedetto Marcello (1878, after the eponymous composer) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Mozart and Salieri (1897) was based on fictional events supposedly involving Mozart and Antonio Salieri Stanislao Falchi's opera Tartini. o Il trillo del Diavolo (1899), about Giuseppe Tartini Giacomo Orefice's opera Chopin (1901), a fictional treatment of the life of Frédéric Chopin, in which the arias were based on themes from that composer's piano works Hans Pfitzner's opera Palestrina (1917), depicting episodes in the life of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Franz Lehár's operetta Paganini (1925), a fictional treatment of Paganini's life Bernhard Paumgartner's opera Rossini in Neapel (1936) on Gioacchino Rossini Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's opera Taverner (1972), on John Taverner's life Alfred Schnittke's opera Gesualdo (1995), based on Carlo Gesualdo's life. Sometimes the name of something strongly associated with the composer is used as the title of a work: Sergei Lyapunov named a symphonic poem written in tribute to Chopin after that composer's birthplace Żelazowa Wola Emil Ábrányi's opera A Tamás-templom karnagya (The cantor of Saint Thomas) (1947), on Johann Sebastian Bach, referring to him by the church where he worked. Transcription or adaptation Transcriptions or adaptations of existing