Bruce R Schueneman & William E Studwell 
Minor Ballet Composers [PDF ebook] 
Biographical Sketches of Sixty-Six Underappreciated Yet Significant Contributors to the Body of West

While most music lovers are familiar with the famous scores of Tchaikovsky, Delibes, and Stravinsky, many other lesser-known composers also wrote for the ballet. Several of these composers wrote almost exclusively for the ballet–and all enriched the world of dance. Minor Ballet Composers presents biographical sketches of 66 underappreciated ballet