| ZELENKA | Jan Dismas ?, Bohemian Baroque composer whose works include 1730 cantata Il Serpente di Bronzo (7) |
| VIVALDI | Antonio ---, Venetian priest and Baroque composer whose works include The Four Seasons (7) |
| CORELLI | Italian Baroque composer whose music was the key to the development of the sonata and concerto |
| HENRYPURCELL | 17th-century English Baroque composer whose works include the tragic opera Dido And Aeneas (5,7) |
| HANDEL | George Frideric ---, German-English Baroque composer whose works include Messiah and Water Music (6) |
| FRESCOBALDI | Girolamo ___, Italian Baroque composer whose works include the liturgical organ music collection Fiori musicali |
| BACH | Johann Sebastian ---, German Baroque composer whose works include the Brandenburg Concertos (4) |
| ANTONIOVIVALDI | Venetian priest and Baroque composer whose works included The Four Seasons (7,7) |
| REAUMUR | Temperature scale founded in 1730 and named after a French naturalist (7) |
| PETERII | Teenage Russian emperor (1727-1730) |
| ALBINONI | Italian baroque composer whose famous 'Adagio' was finished by another (8) |
| PURCELL | Henry _, 17th-century English Baroque composer who wrote the Christmas anthem Behold, I Bring You Glad Tidings (7) |
| ALLEGRI | Gregorio -------, Baroque composer famous for his 'Miserere' (7) |
| TAVENER | English composer whose cantata The Whale premiered in 1968 (7) |
| LECLAIR | Baroque composer Jean-Marie |
| TORELLI | Baroque composer Giuseppe __ |
| LAMBERT | Constant --, composer of the cantata 'The Rio Grande' (7) |
| HYDEPARK | 350-acre Royal green space in London whose Serpentine lake created for Queen Caroline in 1730 was originally six natural ponds (4,4) |
| CARMINA | Cantata by Carl Orff first produced in Frankfurt in 1937 (7,6) |
| MINICAM | What may film a couple of crotchets around beginning and end of cantata? (7) |