The legend of the phoenix has long inspired artistic retellings mirroring this magical bird's infinite reincarnations. Recent musical works based on the tale include Phoenix by Anže Rozman (b. 1989), a Slovenian composer of concert and film music. Published for flute and piano (2012) and flute and orchestra (2019), Phoenix traces the creature's life cycle, as its programmatic movement titles attest: I. Ash-Birth, II. The First Flight-Life, III. The Last Flight-Death, and IV. Rebirth. The expressive power of Rozman's Phoenix emerges from creative interweaving of extramusical associations and teleological processes. The work combines musical references to birds, magic, and victory with driving processes of thematic contrast, motivic development, and striving contour. While each of these features finds antecedents in concert and film music of the past, they together breathe life into a new rendition of an ancient tale.