Ballet Music

'Ballet' as a musical form is a musical composition intended for ballet performance. The same music can be used for several different ballet choreographies. Until about the second half of the 19th century the role of music in ballet was secondary, with main emphasis being on dance, with music being a compilation of danceable tunes. Writing "ballet music" used to be a job for composers known as "specialists".

Famous ballet composers
· Cesare Pugni
· Adolphe Adam
· Léon (or Ludwig) Minkus
· Léo Delibes
· Riccardo Drigo
· Jules Massenet
· Pyotr Ill'yich Tchaikovsky
· Alexander Glazunov
· Nikolai Tcherepnin
· Igor Stravinsky
· Sergei Prokofiev
· Dmitri Shostakovich
· Reinhold Glière
· Boris Asafiev
· Aram Khachaturian