| WAGNER | Richard ---, 19th Century German composer and conductor famous for his operas, including Lohengrin and Parsifal (6) |
| RICHARDWAGNER | 19th Century German composer and conductor famous for his operas, which included Lohengrin and Parsifal (7,6) |
| BRAHMS | 19th-century German composer (surname) who wrote A German Requiem (6) |
| OTHMAYR | Caspar ___, 16th-century German composer and theologian whose works include There is a Snow Fallen ( |
| MASSENET | Jules ---, French composer best known for his operas, which include Manon and Werther (8) |
| RICHARDSTRAUSS | Composer noted for his operas Salome and Elektra (7,7) |
| JULES | --- Massenet, French composer best known for his operas, which include Manon (5) |
| ROBERT | First name of the 19th century German composer Schumann (6) |
| MENDELSSOHN | Felix ---, German composer and conductor who wrote the overture A Midsummer Night's Dream (11) |
| HUMPERDINCK | Engelbert _, German composer known for his opera Hansel Und Gretel (11) |
| EVAJESSYE | American conductor, George Gershwin's musical director for his opera Porgy and Bess (3,6) |
| BORODIN | Alexander _, Russian Romantic composer and chemist known for his opera Prince Igor (7) |
| BELABARTOK | Hungarian composer and pianist noted for his opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle (4,6) |
| GLINKA | Mikhail, Russian composer noted for his opera Ruslan And Lyudmila (6) |
| PUCCINI | Stealing church organ parts to buy cigarettes in his youth, a composer of 12 operas, including Madama Butterfly and Tosca, who became the richest musician of his era (7) |
| DADD | Richard -, 19th-century English painter whose works include the unfinished The Fairy Feller's Master |
| ANSDELL | Richard, 19th-century Lancashire painter of animals... all ends differently (7) |
| ROSSINI | Gioachino Antonio _; Italian composer remembered for his operas (7) |
| SCHUMANN | 19th-century German composer (8) |
| CIMAROSA | Domenico --, Italian composer chiefly remembered for his opera buffa 'The Secret Marriage' (8) |