Question: "Idle Chatter" is a popular song adapted from the popular 19th Century Ballet, "Dance of the Hours" written by who?
Context: Dance of the Hours (Italian: "Danza delle ore ") is a short ballet and is the act 3 finale of the opera "La Gioconda" composed by Amilcare Ponchielli.  It depicts the hours of the day through solo and ensemble dances.  The opera was first performed in 1876 and was revised in 1880.  Later performed on its own, the "Dance of the Hours" was at one time one of the best known and most frequently performed ballets.  It became even more widely known after its inclusion in the 1940 Disney animated film "Fantasia" where it is depicted as a comic ballet featuring anthropomorphized ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators. The Carver Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Carver, Richmond, Virginia.  The district encompasses 312 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site located west of downtown Richmond.  The primarily residential area developed starting in the mid-19th century.  The buildings are in a variety of popular 19th century and early 20th century architectural styles including Gothic Revival and Greek Revival.  Notable buildings include the Hardin Davis House (1842), Amanda Ragland House (1843), Reuben Lacy House (1859), Rueben T. Hill House (1900), George Washington Carver Elementary School (1887), Moore Street Baptist Church (1909), Baughman Brothers/Biggs Antique Company building (1924), and the T&E Laundry Company Building (c. 1915). The Grace Street Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located in Richmond, Virginia.  The district encompasses 93 contributing buildings located in downtown Richmond.  The buildings reflect the core of the city's early 20th century retail development and the remnants of a 19th-century residential neighborhood.  The buildings are in a variety of popular 19th century and early 20th century architectural styles including Classical Revival, Mission Revival, International Style, and Colonial Revival.  Notable buildings include the Administration and Equipment Building for the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company (1929), Thalhimer's Department Store, Atlantic Life Building (1950-1959), Miller & Rhoads Department Store, Berry-Burk Building, former W. W. Foster Studios (1927), Bank of Virginia (1949), Investment Realty Company building (1930), W.T. Grant Store (1939), Hotel John Marshall (1927), Franklin Federal Savings and Loan building (1954), and the Tompkins House (1820).  Located in the district and separately listed are the Loew's Theatre, Centenary United Methodist Church, Joseph P. Winston House, Central National Bank, and National Theater. The Carver Industrial Historic District is a national historic district located at Carver, Richmond, Virginia.  The district encompasses 13 contributing buildings located west of downtown Richmond.  The industrial area developed between 1890 and 1930, along the tracks of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad.  The buildings are in a variety of popular 19th century and early 20th century architectural styles including Queen Anne and Romanesque. "Idle Chatter" is a popular song written by Al Sherman and recorded by the Andrews Sisters with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra.  The music is adapted from the popular 19th Century Ballet, "Dance of the Hours" by Ponchielli.  The song was recorded on May 26, 1952 and released later that year. An Ancient Tale.  Novel of Polish history (in Polish Stara baśń.  Powieść z dziejów Polski) - is a historical novel by popular 19th century Polish writer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski published by "Gebethner i Wolff" (Gebethner & Wolff Publishers) in 1876 in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Empire.  This work was the first novel in Kraszewski's long series of historical novels dealing with various periods in Poland's history.  The second edition was published in 1879, in a lavishly illustrated form, with the plates done by then popular illustrator Michał Elwiro Andriolli.  The manuscript of the novel was destroyed during World War II. Thomas Brigham Bishop (June 29, 1835 - May 15, 1905) (usually referred to as T. Brigham Bishop) is best known as an American composer of popular music.  Various disputed claims have been made by Bishop and others that he authored, or at least contributed to the authorship of, a number of popular 19th century songs including "John Brown's Body", "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", and "Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me".  Bishop later had an infamous career as a bucket shop proprietor, among other schemes. The Orient Historic District is a national historic district in Orient in Suffolk County, New York, United States.  The district has 120 contributing buildings and one contributing structure.  They were constructed between the late 18th and late 19th century, the most common building type being a "Cape Cod type," a frame dwelling of one and one half stories sheathed in shingles or clapboard.  It also includes a number of examples of popular 19th century building styles, such as Italianate.  The focal point of the district is Orient Wharf, established in 1740. Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova (Russian: Агриппина Яковлевна Ваганова ; 26 June 1879 – 5 November 1951) was a Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method – the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old "Imperial Ballet School" (today the "Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet") under the "Premier Maître de Ballet" Marius Petipa throughout the mid to late 19th century, though mostly throughout the 1880s and 1890s.  It was Vaganova who perfected and cultivated this form of teaching the art of classical ballet into a workable syllabus.  Her "Fundamentals of the Classical Dance" (1934) remains a standard textbook for the instruction of ballet technique.  Her technique is one of the most popular techniques today. Ballet as a music form progressed from simply a complement to dance, to a concrete compositional form that often had as much value as the dance that went along with it.  The dance form, originating in France during the 17th century, began as a theatrical dance.  It was not until the 19th century that ballet gained status as a “classical” form.  In ballet, the terms ‘classical’ and ‘romantic’ are chronologically reversed from musical usage.  Thus, the 19th century classical period in ballet coincided with the 19th century Romantic era in Music.  Ballet music composers from the 17th–19th centuries, including the likes of Jean-Baptiste Lully and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, were predominantly in France and Russia.  Yet with the increased international notoriety seen in Tchaikovsky’s lifetime, ballet music composition and ballet in general spread across the western world.
Answer: Ponchielli