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Purcell. An example of one of the early composers of ballet as distinct for simply "dance music." Not know primarily as a composer of ballet (at least, not as it developed later), but Dido and Aeneas and The Faery Queen contain fairly substantial ballet sequences, as did other stage works he composed. If you want to scratch him, I can add a half-dozen others from the same period.

Don Firth