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15 JEAN-BAPTISTE FONLUPT In your opinion, what place does ballet music have in the piano repertory, and more specifically in the works you have assembled here? This music has a place in the repertory in its own right. Although it was written to be choreographed and performed with orchestra, a number of composers also chose to create versions for piano. Not in the spirit of mere transcriptions or reductions that could be performed in the salons, for example, but conceiving them as genuine piano works, concert pieces written or rewritten with that end in view. I’ve selected works that show two different approaches: some that were originally for orchestra, and others written initially for piano that were later orchestrated. In both cases it was the composer who created the new version.