Composers have traditionally written songs for their love interests. But its also common for composers to create songs for their pets. Mozart composed for his starling. Some of the great romantic era composers would dedicate songs to their “noble” pets. Composers would commonly name their pieces after a certain animal, hoping to capture the” spirit of the beast”In modern times, one might find a piece dedicated to a pet rock, or a non GMO plant. I know of one composer bent on writing music for extinct animals. I heard another composer wrote a love song for “Nessie.”
I personally stick to writing music about humans, ideas, feelings, thoughts and moods.But I do take some of my ideas from the songs of birds. Having traveled extensively through 20 countries, I have listened to the sounds of Raven in Rome, Swallows in Spain, and Finches in Freiburg. The sheer complexity of sound found in the animal kingdom has no doubt had a hand in the very development of music in mankind.
Thomas Schoenberger