| 100% | WAGNER | 6 | Richard, German composer and conductor born 1813 |
| 47% | WAGNER | 6 | Richard —, German composer of operas Parsifal and Lohengrin |
| 44% | FOSS | 4 | Composer and conductor Lukas |
| 42% | MAHLER | 6 | Austrian composer and conductor |
| 41% | BERLIOZ | 7 | Hector, legendary French composer and conductor |
| 39% | SARGENT | 7 | Malcolm —, English composer and conductor who died in 1967 |
| 39% | REGER | 5 | Max —, German composer and organist who died in 1916 |
| 38% | MAXREGER | 8 | German composer and organist whose works include 1903’s Gesang der Verklarten |
| 38% | HENRY | 5 | ___ Mancini, American composer and conductor who received 72 Grammy nominations |
| 38% | BERNSTEIN | 9 | Conductor and composer Leonard |
| 37% | JOHN | 4 | ___ Williams, American composer and conductor who has received 71 Grammy nominations |
| 37% | TAR | 3 | 2022 Oscar-nominated film starring Cate Blanchett as a composer and conductor |
| 36% | NADIA | 5 | Composer and conductor Boulanger who taught, among others, Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, and Quincy Jones |
| 36% | BRUCH | 5 | Max —, German composer of oratorio Arminius born in 1838 |
| 36% | GLUCK | 5 | Christoph Willibald —, German composer of operas Tetide and Alceste |
| 36% | SPOHR | 5 | Louis —, German composer of the operas Jessonda and Faust |
| 36% | BERNSTEIN | 9 | Leonard __, American conductor and composer |
| 35% | ALANSILVESTRI | 13 | American composer and conductor who scored music for "Back to the Future": 2 wds. |
| 35% | RICHARDWAGNER | 13 | German composer of the operas "The Flying Dutchman" and "Siegfried": 2 wds. |
| 35% | OTHMAYR | 7 | Caspar —, 16th-century German composer and theologian whose works include There is a Snow Fallen |
| 34% | PETERTHIEL | 10 | German born venture capitalist and chess expert who cofounded PayPal |
| 34% | PEORIA | 6 | Where Betty Friedan and Richard Pryor were born |
| 34% | CARLMARIAVON | 12 | & 9A Conductor and composer of 1823 opera Euryanthe |
| 33% | ENYA | 4 | Irish singer and film composer born Eithne Ni Bhraonain |
| 33% | KLEMPERER | 9 | Otto —, orchestral conductor; composer of operas Eros and Wehen |
| 32% | OFFENBACH | 9 | German-born composer |
| 32% | VIENNA | 6 | Where the composers Schubert, Berg, Schönberg and Webern were all born |
| 31% | STEPHENSONDHEIM | 15 | Broadway composer (of 18-, 20-, and 57-Across) born 3/22/1930 |
| 30% | OFFENBACH | 9 | & 35. German-born composer |