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Ballet

28 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Aaron CoplandPerson · Music memorabiliaAaron Copland (November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist, and conductor of his own and other American music.
Ādolfs SkultePerson · Music memorabiliaĀdolfs Skulte (28 October 1909 – 20 March 2000) was a Latvian composer and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1979).
Anatolii Kos-AnatolskyiPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Anatoliy Kos-Anatolsky
Arif MalikovPerson · Music memorabiliaArif Malikov (also Melikov; Baku, 13 September 1933 – Baku, 9 May 2019) was an Azerbaijani composer. He graduated from the Baku Conservatory as a music composer in 1958.
Arthur SullivanPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Sullivan in 1888
Bohuslav MartinůPerson · Music memorabiliaBohuslav Jan Martinů (December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer of modern classical music.
David DiamondPerson · Music memorabiliaDavid Leo Diamond (July 9, 1915 – June 13, 2005) was an American composer of classical music. He is considered one of the preeminent American composers of his generation.
Fran LhotkaPerson · Music memorabiliaFran Lhotka (25 December 1883 – 26 January 1962) was a Czech-born Croatian composer and teacher of classical music.
Gaziza ZhubanovaPerson · Music memorabiliaGaziza Akhmetkyzy Zhubanova (Ǵazıza Ahmetqyzy Jubanova; with middle name "Akhmetovna"; 2 December 1927 – 13 December 1993) was a Soviet and Kazakh composer and pedagogue.
Jean-Baptiste LullyPerson · Music memorabiliaJean-Baptiste Lully (born Giovanni Battista Lulli; – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-French composer, dancer and instrumentalist, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style.
Joseph WeiglPerson · Music memorabiliaJoseph Weigl (28 March 1766 – 3 February 1846) was an Austrian composer and conductor.
Jules MassenetPerson · Music memorabiliaJules Émile Frédéric Massenet (12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty.
Kurt WeillPerson · Music memorabiliaKurt Julian Weill (German: [vaɪl]; March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United…
Lord BernersPerson · Music memorabiliaGerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (18 September 188319 April 1950), also known as Gerald Tyrwhitt, was a British composer, novelist, painter, and aesthete.
Marius ConstantPerson · Music memorabiliaMarius Constant (7 February 192515 May 2004) was a Romanian-born French composer and conductor.
Mark MinkovPerson · Music memorabiliaMark Anatolievich Minkov (25 November 1944 – 29 May 2012) was a Soviet and Russian music composer. His music is featured in a number of operas, ballets, stage performances, and films.
Pascal CollassePerson · Music memorabiliaPascal Collasse (or Colasse) (22 January 1649 (baptised) – 17 July 1709) was a French composer of the Baroque era.
Pavel VranickýPerson · Music memorabiliaPaul Wranitzky (Pavel Vranický; 30 December 1756 – 29 September 1808) was a Moravian classical composer. His half brother, Antonín, was also a composer.
Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyPerson · Music memorabiliaPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period.
Rodion ShchedrinPerson · Music memorabiliaRodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin (rədʲɪˈon kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ ɕːɪˈdrʲin; 16 December 1932 – 29 August 2025) was a Soviet and Russian composer, pianist, and music teacher.
Sergei ProkofievPerson · Music memorabiliaSergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (– 5 March 1953)While Prokofiev himself believed 11/23 April to be his birth date, the posthumous discovery of his birth certificate showed that he was actually…
Tikhon KhrennikovPerson · Music memorabiliaTikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov (10 June 1913 – 14 August 2007) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and General Secretary of the Union of Soviet Composers (1948–1991), who was also…
Vyacheslav OvchinnikovPerson · Music memorabiliaVyacheslav Aleksandrovich Ovchinnikov (29 May 1936 in Voronezh, Soviet Union – 4 February 2019 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian composer.
Yuri KhanonArtist · PaintingsYuri Khanon is a pen name of Yuri Feliksovich Soloviev-Savoyarov, a Russian composer.

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