Timeline: Ballet and Music Through the Ages

(Click on any of the composers below for more information)

Lully   Note that early ballets included opera.

Rameau (obviously the choreography is not of the same period!)

Beethoven Unfortunately, I couldn't find a video of the ballet.

Chopin This was not written as ballet music, but later arranged for the ballet "Les Sylphides"

Delibes Coppelia

Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty

Prokoviev Romeo and Juliet

Stravinsky Jeux des Cartes