| TONEPOET | Composer of symphonic "verse" |
| SIBELIUS | Jean ?, composer of symphonic poem Finlandia |
| BAX | Arnold -, English composer of symphonic poem Tintagel |
| RESPIGHI | Italian composer of symphonic poems, d. 1936 - hire pigs (anag) (8) |
| LISZT | Franz ?, 19th-century Hungarian composer of symphonic poems Hungaria and Orpheus (5) |
| RICHARDSTRAUSS | German composer of symphonic poems, 1864-1949 (7,7) |
| FRANZLISZT | 19th-century Hungarian composer of symphonic poems Hungaria and Orpheus (5,5) |
| PROKOFIEV | Russian composer of symphonic fairy tale Peter and the Wolf (9) |
| SMETANA | Bedrich -; composer who wrote The Bartered Bride and cycle of symphonic poems Ma vlast (7) |
| ROMAN | - Trilogy ; series of symphonic poems by Italian composer Ottorino Respighi (5) |
| PAULHINDEMITH | German-born composer of the opera Mathis der Maler and the orchestral work Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (4,9) |
| ELGAR | English composer of the symphonic study "Falstaff" |
| JEAN | Finnish composer of the symphonic poem Finlandia (1899) |
| HANDEL | Symphonic composer of the famous 9th? (6) |
| BALAKIREV | Russian composer of the symphonic poem Tamara |
| RIMSKY | Composer of the symphonic suite Sheherazade (6-8) |
| KORSAKOV | Composer of the symphonic suite Sheherazade (6-8) |
| SAINTSAENS | Charles Camille, French composer of the 1874 symphonic poem Danse macabre (5-5) |
| DUKAS | Paul, composer of the symphonic poem The Sorcerer's Apprentice (5) |
| JEANSIBELIUS | Finnish composer of the symphonic poem Finlandia (4,8) |
