| 100% | SCRIABIN | 8 | Alexander —, Russian composer whose Symphony No 3 in C minor, Opus 43 is entitled Le Divin Poeme |
| 26% | EROICA | 6 | Name by which Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No 3 in E Flat Major, Op 55 is known |
| 26% | EROICA | 6 | Name by which Symphony No 3 in E Flat Major, Op 55 by Ludwig van Beethoven is known |
| 25% | LIGETI | 6 | Gyorgy —, Hungarian composer whose only opera, Le Grand Macabre, premiered in 1978 |
| 23% | CHOPIN | 6 | Frederic —, Polish composer whose Waltz in D Flat Major, Op 64 No 1 is known as the Minute Waltz |
| 23% | SCRIABIN | 8 | Russian composer whose fourth sonata was his shortest |
| 22% | BEETHOVEN | 9 | Composer whose only opera was Fidelio |
| 21% | COLEPORTER | 10 | Composer whose 125th birth anniversary was celebrated in June: 2 wds. |
| 21% | BEETHOVEN | 9 | Composer whose works are hidden in 30-, 39- and 48-Across |
| 21% | BELABARTOK | 10 | *Hungarian composer whose only opera is about 17-Across |
| 21% | ZWILICH | 7 | Ellen —, US composer whose Symphony no 1 (Three Movements for Orchestra) won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| 21% | EMAJ | 4 | What Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 is written in: Abbr. |
| 21% | GMAJOR | 6 | Key that Mozart's Symphony No. 10 is written in |
| 20% | DFLAT | 5 | Liszt's "Consolation No. 3" is in it |
| 20% | CONSONANTS | 10 | Group whose members are represented completely (with no repeats) in 21-, 26- and 43-Across |
| 20% | BACH | 4 | Composer whose work is featured in Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” music video |
| 20% | LIGETI | 6 | Composer György whose music was featured in Kubrick films |
| 20% | MOONLIGHTSONATA | 15 | Beethoven opus in C-sharp minor |
| 20% | ORFF | 4 | Carl —, German composer whose scenic cantata Carmina Burana was first staged in 1937 |
| 19% | LIGETI | 6 | Composer György whose music is featured prominently in “2001: A Space Odyssey” |
| 19% | KEY | 3 | C minor, for Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" |
| 19% | LABOHEME | 8 | Giacomo Puccini opera whose world premiere was in Turin in 1896 |
| 19% | MIMI | 4 | Opera character whose name might be heard in an opera singer's warm-up |
| 19% | FIDELIO | 7 | Opera whose name is the password to the secret party in Eyes Wide Shut |
| 19% | MILE | 4 | Distance whose world-record running time is 3 minutes, 43.13 seconds |
| 19% | EWING | 5 | Patrick whose No. 33 jersey was retired by the Knicks in 2003 |
| 18% | EFLAT | 5 | Me in C minor |
| 18% | MAHLER | 6 | Gustav —, Austrian composer of song cycle Kindertotenlieder whose 1905 premiere was in Vienna |
| 18% | NABUCCO | 7 | Giuseppe Verdi opera composed in 1841 whose title character is king of Babylon |