Achim Breiling lists some memorable twentieth century ballet music, then asks:

>Which other 20th century ballet works would list-members suggest me to try?

Robert Gerhard's Pandora's Box shares a cd with Gerhard's Fourth Symphony.
It is very beautiful- and much more approachable than the later symphonies.
Prokofieff's Romeo and Juliet is a marvel, as well as is The Prodigal Son.
Igor Markevitch composed at least one ballet- more, if I remember
correctly.

Then too I believe that Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe started life as ballet
music, and Morton Gould's Fall River Legend was written for Martha Graham,
as was Copland's Appalachian Spring.  (I could use a fact checker here.)
Was Roussel's " The Spider's Feast" written to be danced?

I think that you can make a very strong case that ballet and modern dance
commissions played a very central role in twentieth century music.

Professor Bernard Chasan
Physics Department, Boston University