100% | GRAINGER | 8 | Percy —, Australian pianist and composer who died in 1961 |
65% | SHEARING | 8 | George —, British jazz pianist and composer who died in 2011 |
65% | MONK | 4 | Thelonious —, US jazz pianist and composer who died in 1982 |
65% | EVANS | 5 | Gil —, Toronto-born jazz pianist and composer who died in 1988 |
57% | SCOTTJOPLIN | 11 | US pianist and composer associated with the ragtime style who died in 1917 |
54% | COLTRANE | 8 | John —, US jazz saxophonist and composer who died in 1967 |
50% | PADEREWSKI | 10 | Ignace Jan —, pianist and composer who became Prime Minister of Poland in 1919 |
47% | BORGE | 5 | Victor —, Danish pianist and comedian who died in 2000 |
44% | REGER | 5 | Max —, German composer and organist who died in 1916 |
44% | SARGENT | 7 | Malcolm —, English composer and conductor who died in 1967 |
42% | KEITH | 5 | ___ Jarrett, award-winning pianist and composer who inspired Bobby McFerrin |
41% | JUNG | 4 | Carl Gustav —, Swiss founder of analytical psychology who died in 1961 |
41% | DYKES | 5 | John Bacchus —, Kingston upon Hull-born church composer who died in 1876 |
40% | BYRD | 4 | William —, English composer and organist who died in 1623 whose publications include Songs of Sundrie Natures |
39% | LAST | 4 | James —, prolific Bremen-born composer and bandleader who died in 2015 |
39% | PADEREWSKI | 10 | Ignacy Jan —, pianist and composer; prime minister of Poland in 1919 |
39% | SOUSA | 5 | Composer who, as it happens, died in March (1932) |
39% | LAST | 4 | James —, prolific Bremen-born composer and bandleader who died in June 2015 |
38% | ARCHIMEDES | 10 | Greek mathematician and physicist who died in 212 BC |
38% | GERSHWIN | 8 | George, pianist and composer of Rhapsody in Blue |
37% | MORRISON | 8 | Doors singer who died young and is buried in Paris |
36% | MELTORME | 8 | Big band singer and composer nicknamed The Velvet Fog who died in 1999 |
36% | RUBINSTEIN | 10 | Arthur —, Poland-born pianist and honorary KBE who died in 1982 |
35% | LEO | 3 | Pianist and composer Ornstein |
35% | CLARA | 5 | Pianist and composer Schumann |
34% | ROREM | 5 | Neoclassical composer Ned who died in 2022, at age ninety-nine |
34% | COLUMBUS | 8 | Christopher —, navigator and explorer who died in Valladolid, Spain, in 1506 |
34% | COLUMBUS | 8 | Christopher -, navigator and explorer who died in Valladolid, Spain, in 1506 |
34% | COLUMBUS | 8 | Christopher —, navigator and explorer who died in Valladolid, Spain in 1506 |