| BRUNOWALTER | German-born US conductor who was the first to conduct Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and Ninth Symphony |
| MAHLER | Gustav ___, Austrian composer and conductor whose works include Das Lied von der Erde and the song cycle Kindertotenlieder |
| WALTER | Bruno ___, German-born US conductor who championed the works of Gustav Mahler |
| GUSTAVMAHLER | Composer who followed his Eighth Symphony with Das Lied von der Erde in an attempt to avoid the 'curse of the ninth' |
| MAHLERIAN | In the style of the "Symphony of a Thousand" and "Das Lied von der Erde" |
| TOSCANINI | Italian conductor who was the music director of La Scala and the New York Philharmonic, Arturo _ (9) |
| PLANETARIA | "Cosmic" instruments interpreted Das Lied von der Erde ? (10) |
| VONKARAJAN | Herbert, conductor who was the artistic director of the Vienna State Opera from 1957-64 (3,7) |
| DAS | Mahler's "___ Lied von der Erde" |
| LEVISTRAUSS | German-born US businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans (4,7) |
| ANSERMET | Swiss conductor who was the principal conductor of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes |
| ERNEST | Swiss conductor who was the principal conductor of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes |
| ERDE | Mahler's "Das Lied von der ---" |
| BLISS | Composer and conductor who was knighted in 1950 and appointed Master of the Queen's Music in 1953 in succession to Sir Arnold Bax (5) |
| DANIELBARENBOIM | Argentina-born Israeli pianist and conductor who was married to cellist Jacqueline du Pre (6,9) |
| KISSINGER | Henry ___, German-born US academic and diplomat who shared the Nobel peace prize in 1973 |
| LEONARDBERNSTEIN | US conductor and composer who wrote the score of the musical West Side Story |
| SOUSA | John Philip ---, US conductor and composer of military marches, such as The Stars And Stripes Forever (5) |
| LEOPOLD | Baton-free conductor who was the musical director of Walt Disney's Fantasia, ... Stokowski |
| OZAWA | Seiji, conductor who was musical director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra between 1973 and 2002 (5) |
