Did ballet influence the development of classical music?

Because music and dance largely developed together the influence of one on the other is not easy to sort out. But you are asking about ballet specifically, not dance in general I take it, and ballet in the sense we now use it? read more

The major influence ballet subsequently had on classical music was to offer a way to liberate it from a reliance on either formal structures (like sonata-allegro form) or written texts (opera and song) and thus expand the composers' range of imagination. read more

Modern ballet was about women, dreams and the imagination. (MUSIC) SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: By the middle of the nineteenth century, Denmark and Russia became very important places for ballet. Danish dance creator August Bournonville developed a new method of Danish ballet influenced by French traditions. Ms. read more