| 100% | BERNSTEIN | 9 | Leonard __, American conductor and composer |
| 79% | BERNSTEIN | 9 | Conductor and composer Leonard |
| 64% | JOHNWILLIAMS | 12 | American conductor and composer who won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the 1982 movie "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (2 wds.) |
| 63% | HENRY | 5 | ___ Mancini, American composer and conductor who received 72 Grammy nominations |
| 62% | JOHN | 4 | ___ Williams, American composer and conductor who has received 71 Grammy nominations |
| 61% | ALANSILVESTRI | 13 | American composer and conductor who scored music for "Back to the Future": 2 wds. |
| 56% | CARLMARIAVON | 12 | & 9A Conductor and composer of 1823 opera Euryanthe |
| 55% | SOUSA | 5 | American bandmaster and composer of “El Capitan” |
| 54% | FOSS | 4 | Composer and conductor Lukas |
| 54% | GEORGEMCOHAN | 12 | American composer and lyricist |
| 52% | MAHLER | 6 | Austrian composer and conductor |
| 50% | BERNSTEIN | 9 | Leonard —, American composer of 1957 stage musical West Side Story |
| 50% | BERLIOZ | 7 | Hector, legendary French composer and conductor |
| 49% | WAGNER | 6 | Richard, German composer and conductor born 1813 |
| 48% | GERSHWIN | 8 | Last name of American composers George and Ira |
| 47% | COLEPORTER | 10 | American composer known for 17-Across and 29-Across (2 wds.) |
| 47% | SARGENT | 7 | Malcolm —, English composer and conductor who died in 1967 |
| 44% | TAR | 3 | 2022 Oscar-nominated film starring Cate Blanchett as a composer and conductor |
| 43% | NADIA | 5 | Composer and conductor Boulanger who taught, among others, Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, and Quincy Jones |
| 43% | JONES | 5 | Quincy ___, American songwriter and composer who has received 80 Grammy nominations |
| 42% | MAURICEJARRE | 12 | French conductor and composer who won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the 1984 movie "A Passage to India" (2 wds.) |
| 42% | ALSOP | 5 | American conductor Marin -- |
| 42% | HERBIEHANCOCK | 13 | American bandleader and composer who won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the 1986 movie "Round Midnight" (2 wds.) |
| 42% | DVORAK | 6 | Composer of the American Quartet and the New World Symphony |
| 41% | KLEMPERER | 9 | Otto —, orchestral conductor; composer of operas Eros and Wehen |
| 40% | ANTHONY | 7 | __ Burgess, English writer and composer |
| 39% | LEO | 3 | Pianist and composer Ornstein |
| 39% | CLARA | 5 | Pianist and composer Schumann |
| 38% | EGONS | 5 | Painter Schiele and composer Wellesz |