| 100% | SCHUBERT | 8 | “Die Winterreise” composer |
| 88% | SCHUBERT | 8 | Franz —, composer of song cycles Winterreise and Die Schone Mullerin |
| 61% | SOUSA | 5 | Composer who, as it happens, died in March (1932) |
| 60% | SCHUBERT | 8 | “Winterreise” composer |
| 57% | STRAUSS | 7 | "Die Fledermaus" composer |
| 57% | NEEFE | 5 | Christian Gottlob —, German composer of 1771 opera Die Apotheke |
| 57% | BUSONI | 6 | Ferruccio —, Italian composer of operas Die Brautwahl and Arlecchino |
| 57% | REGER | 5 | Max —, German composer and organist who died in 1916 |
| 57% | GRAINGER | 8 | Percy —, Australian pianist and composer who died in 1961 |
| 57% | SARGENT | 7 | Malcolm —, English composer and conductor who died in 1967 |
| 55% | SHEARING | 8 | George —, British jazz pianist and composer who died in 2011 |
| 55% | MONK | 4 | Thelonious —, US jazz pianist and composer who died in 1982 |
| 55% | COLTRANE | 8 | John —, US jazz saxophonist and composer who died in 1967 |
| 53% | EMMETT | 6 | Dan —, composer credited with the song Dixie who died in 1904 |
| 53% | LAST | 4 | James —, prolific Bremen-born composer and bandleader who died in 2015 |
| 53% | EVANS | 5 | Gil —, Toronto-born jazz pianist and composer who died in 1988 |
| 53% | ISAACALBENIZ | 12 | Spanish composer of suite for piano Iberia who died in 1909 |
| 53% | ROREM | 5 | Neoclassical composer Ned who died in 2022, at age ninety-nine |
| 51% | OBRECHT | 7 | Jacob —, composer of the mass Missa Maria zart who died in 1505 |
| 51% | JOHNTAVERNER | 12 | English organist, composer of mass Gloria tibi Trinitas, who died in 1545 |
| 51% | DYKES | 5 | John Bacchus —, Kingston upon Hull-born church composer who died in 1876 |
| 51% | LAST | 4 | James —, prolific Bremen-born composer and bandleader who died in June 2015 |
| 50% | MELTORME | 8 | Big band singer and composer nicknamed The Velvet Fog who died in 1999 |
| 50% | SCOTTJOPLIN | 11 | US pianist and composer associated with the ragtime style who died in 1917 |
| 48% | MOZART | 6 | Leopold —, 18th-century German violinist and composer whose works include Jagdsinfonie and Die Bauernhochzeit |
| 48% | PAGANINI | 8 | Niccolo —, Genoa-born composer of 24 Caprices for Solo Violin who died in 1840 |
| 44% | BYRD | 4 | William —, English composer and organist who died in 1623 whose publications include Songs of Sundrie Natures |
| 43% | IVES | 4 | 1947 Pulitzer composer |
| 43% | VIVALDI | 7 | Noted concerto composer |
| 43% | ELGAR | 5 | Knighted English composer |