| PERGOLESI | Giovanni Battista ___, Italian composer whose best known sacred work is his 1736 Stabat Mater |
| VIOTTI | Giovanni Battista ___, Italian composer of twenty-nine violin concertos who died in 1824 (6) |
| MOTET | Sacred work is a tiny bit tacky at the outset (5) |
| TIEPOLO | Giovanni Battista ___, Italian rococo painter whose works include The Chariot of Aurora (7) |
| KAROL | "Stabat Mater" composer Szymanowski |
| FRESCOBALDI | Girolamo, Italian organist and composer whose best-known work is his Fiori Musicali (11) |
| LEONARD | American composer whose best-known work is the musical West Side Story, _ Bernstein (7) |
| DONATI | Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista ___, after whom a comet is named |
| PIRANESI | Giovanni Battista ___, 18th-century etcher whose works include Imaginary Prisons (8) |
| RAVEL | Maurice --, French composer whose best known work is 'Bolero' (5) |
| FRANCK | Composer whose best-known work is probably Panis Angelicus |
| ORFF | Carl _, German composer whose best-known work was the cantata Carmina Burana (1937) |
| DUKAS | Paul _, French composer whose best-known work was The Sorcerer's Apprentice (5) |
| PAISIELLO | Giovanni ___, Italian composer whose operas include The Barber of Seville and Proserpine (9) |
| DALLAPICCOLA | Luigi ___, Italian composer whose final opera was Ulisse to his own libretto, completed in 1968 |
| VICO | Italian philosopher Giovanni Battista ___ |
| LALO | Edouard ___, French composer whose best-known piece is Symphonie espagnole |
| FRIML | Rudolf ___, Prague-born composer whose best-known works are Rose-Marie and The Vagabond King |
| GARNER | see 27dn, American jazz pianist and composer whose best-known composition, Misty, has become a jazz standard |
| AARONCOPLAND | American composer whose best-known works include Fanfare for the Common Man |