| HEINE | Heinrich, German poet many of whose works have been set to music by Schubert and Schumann (5) |
| EURIPIDES | One of the three ancient Greek tragedians, some of whose works have survived in full |
| HENRI | Matisse whose works have been displayed at the Centre Pompidou |
| JONSON | English poet and playwright whose lyrics "Drink to me only with thine eyes" have been set to music in various forms since the 1770s (6) |
| AVEMARIA | Prayer set to music by Schubert and Gounod |
| ASHROPSHIRELAD | 1896 collection of sixty-three poems, most of which have been set to music |
| OFT | Poet's "many, many times" |
| OCTET | Piece of chamber music by Schubert (5) |
| WATER | Lake in Cumbria west of Windermere where various world water speed records have been set (8,5) |
| FRANZ | RAF flying to New Zealand, ahead of Schubert and Kafka (5) |
| LISZT | Composer, the canon of whose works can be heard (5) |
| ADMIT | Acknowledge a piece by Schubert with German following (5) |
| CLARA | Beginners in conservatoire learn about Ravel and Schumann (5) |
| STALE | Like chips that have been set out too long |
| UNDER | Thus, riders may be set to go on track? (5,6) |
| SEUSS | Popular author most of whose work is written in anapestic tetrameter |
| SNARE | It may be set to capture the game |
| TROUT | Quintet by Schubert |
| SCHIFF | Hungarian-born British concert pianist noted for his interpretations of the music of Bach, Beethoven, Janacek, Schubert and Schumann (6) |
| INDULCIJUBILO | What 14th century German carol has been set to music by Bach and in English includes the lines: "Now |
