it depends on which music is popular
Classical Music.
classical orchestra music
its mostly known for classical music.
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Of course, classical music is the most popular than modern music and will always have a place in any century.
Yiruma's music style is popular with a classical twist. The style is classified by ITunes as World Music or New Age. Although influenced by the classics and sounding classical in parts, his music is much more popular in structure.
For the following reasons: * It was the music of the time when ballet was first being danced. Classical music was the "popular" and "cool" music of the time. * It's beautiful songs really connect with ballet. * Even after classical music was not the popular music of the day, everyone thought of ballet with classsical music. * Older ballets were already written to classical music, it wouldn't make sense to rewrite the music for those historic and beautiful ballets.
They listen many kinds of music but the most popular is classical.
This question is so vague as to be unanswerable.
Baroque Classical Folk Popular
folk and popular music.
The same significance that pop stars have now. Only their audience was mostly adults. The music they made is now called "classical music" but was then an elaborate form of contemporary, popular music. Virtuoso performers/composers like Paganini and Lizt already had lots of adoring fans and groupies. Their 'significance' if you will was that they helped to make 19th century classical music popular.