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Who wrote the ballets for Romeo and Juliet and and also Cinderella?
Sergei Prokofiev wrote the most famous ballet music based on Romeo and Juliet, and he did also write ballet music for Cinderella.
Who wrote the nutcracker?
Peter I. Tschaikovsky composed "The Nutcracker" as both a ballet and as an orchestral suite.There are no spoken words in ballets, but the music for The Nutcracker was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The original choreography for the ballet was done by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov.
What country is famous for Juju dance?
This is a popular style from Nigeria. JuJu music which is percussion music fused with traditional music from the Yoruba nation and made famous by King Sunny Adé
What was Giuseppe Verdi's most famous piece?
According to Wikipedia: He was an "... Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces." Read more, below.
Were there famous musicians that lived at the same time as William Shakespeare?
Oh, yes. William Byrd was probably the most famous of them. Thomas Morley is another one. His setting of Shakespeare's lyric "It was a lover and his lass" is still the most popular tune to that lyric. Morley's Ballets are some of the best-known pieces of Elizabethan music, still extremely accessible today. Songwriting, especially in the form of madrigals, was huge in Elizabethan England and there were a large number of fine composers in this form who lived then.
