In fact, his first undisputed masterpiece was composed for a female pupil of that surname.
The Sinfonietta is among the only orchestral pieces – and it's certainly the best of an admittedly small field – to have been composed for a "gymnastic festival", a movement called "Sokol" that celebrated youth, sport and independent nationhood.
Or maybe if people dance a lot to music that perhaps was composed for a different purpose but it manages to tell a coherent story, maybe that will automatically be considered a musical.
It was composed for a play written by August von Kotzebue for the opening of the Hungarian theatre in Pest, and tells of the life of the founder of modern Hungary in the late 10th and early 11th centuries.
It was composed for a production of Goethe's tragic play of the same name, which chronicles the true story of a 16th-century Flemish warrior who led the resistance to the Spanish domination of the Netherlands.
Milhaud's 1923 ballet "La Création du Monde" was composed for a Swedish company after Milhaud had returned to Paris from a United States visit, his head crammed with Harlem jazz.
"Easter 197070), for example, was composed for a handful of early synthesizers (Moogs and Mini-moogs), which at the time could each be used to play only one line of music, as well as two electronic keyboards.
Judith Weir's Blue-Green Hill for the Pierrot Lunaire quintet of piano, winds and strings, grew out of trip to India with BCMG in 2000, while Howard Skempton's typically wistful, haunting oboe quartet Field Notes was composed for a rural tour in Shropshire two years ago.
Dragor is noted as a retreat for artists and writers, and the insides of the houses looked as if they were composed for an endless series of still lifes.
Its current offering, Lukas Foss's "Griffelkin," was composed for an NBC broadcast in 1955, and tells the story of a young devil — the title character — who visits earth on his 10th birthday to learn about the joys and sorrows of mortality.
