Ballet Composers
Main page: :Category:Ballet composersThe following are some of the major ballet composers:
- Cesare Pugni
- Adolphe Adam
- Ludwig Minkus
- Léo Delibes
- Riccardo Drigo
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Alexander Glazunov
- Nikolai Tcherepnin
- Igor Stravinsky
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Reinhold Glière
- Boris Asafyev
- Aram Khachaturian
- Maurice Ravel
- Aaron Copland
- Lorenzo Ferrero
- Leonard Bernstein
- Darius Milhaud
- George Gershwin
- Carlos Surinach
- Bruno Moretti
- Ferde Grofé
- Victor Bruns (1904–1996), Das Recht des Herrn (1953), Theseus (1975)
- Violeta Dinescu (born 1953), Der Kreisel (1985), Effi Briest (1998)
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