Ballet is a dance which has a long history and which had been perfected for centuries, so today it can be performed in a from as we know it. There are numerous songs composed for the ballet, and the task of music class should be introducing them to pupils. By listening the songs written for the ballet, pupils learn about ballet and become a part of the history that has been developing and improving for a long time. This work shows information about ballet issue in music class from the first to the fourth grade. The goal was to determine the extent to which pupils know ballet and compositions written for it, including the influence of the age of the students on the knowledge for the songs composed for the ballet, also the gender difference of the pupils as the influence on their desire to start dancing ballet. Research was conducted during February 2016. in Osnovna škola Ivana Filipovića in Osijek by interviewing 54 pupils of the second grade and 48 pupils of the fourth grade. The instrument which was used for this purpose is questionnaire. The results show that the pupils of the second grade are more familiar with ballet, especially girls. However, fourth grade pupils are not sufficiently familiar with the songs composed for the ballet, but the second grade pupils show better knowledge of it. Girls showed more tendency to start dancing ballet than boys, which should be changed in future practice.