Music and Time Annotation << Back Sports Images in Music XVIII–XIX Centuries: in Search of the «Grace of New Movements» N. Khilko On the basis of the analysis of rare for that time opuses of F. Couperin, J. Meyerbeer, F. Liszt, E. Satie, representing sports images, the author shows genesis of sports Scherzo. Composer interest to the phenomenons of physical culture and forms of implementation in the music is caused by the historical context. Hunting as a kind of sports entertainment variously interpreted in vocal and instrumental genres, starting with the Renaissance. The theme of the Olympic Games, actualized in the gallant age, was not treated as sports and embodied in heroic mode. Skating as an item of a specific social environment becomes important for images in music in the epoch of romanticism. Pictures of hunting and skating based on imitation of the characteristic movements and the replication sound items of action. Sports agôn as a form of demonstration of the highest results achieved in the process of improving the human body, has become attractive for musicians with the beginning of the urban era. Transformed in accordance with the program dance was most suitable for recreation a specific sport plastic. Awareness of the aesthetics of a wide range of sporting phenomenon, the search of a variety of techniques onomatopoeia, genre fundamentals determine the initial stage of the development sports imagery. Keywords: F. Couperin, G. Meyerbeer, F. Liszt, E. Satie, É. Waldteufel, gymnopédies, sports Scherzo, picture-motion, program-music, dancе. Contacts: E-mail: n.hilko@mail.ru Pp. 23-28.