| KURTWEILL | German composer who wrote the music for Bertolt Brecht's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and The Threepenny Opera |
| WEILL | Kurt, German composer of music for Brecht's The Threepenny Opera (5) |
| MACKTHEKNIFE | Part of Bertolt Brecht's setting? |
| MENDELSSOHN | Surname of the German composer who wrote an overture about a natural feature of Staffa (11) |
| EISLER | Hanns, German composer who wrote the 1947 book Composing for the Films (6) |
| BACH | German composer who wrote The Toccata and Fugue in D minor (4) |
| ORFF | 20th Century German composer who developed a widely used system of music education for children (4) |
| BEETHOVEN | Ludwig van, German composer who wrote the Moonlight Sonata (9) |
| JOHANN | ____ Sebastian Bach, German composer who wrote the Brandenburg Concertos (6) |
| MACK | Written as part of Weill and Brecht's musical drama, The Threepenny Opera, was The Ballad Of ... The |
| BOWIE | Late singer-songwriter whose albums include The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Let's Dance and Blackstar (5) |
| CROZIER | Brian who wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire" |
| NONILLION | A great many will see the end of Capricorn in the rise and fall of Leo (9) |
| MARS | "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from ___" (David Bowie album) |
| ZIGGYSTARDUST | "The Rise and Fall of ___ and the Spiders from Mars" (1972 album) (5,8) |
| FIVEYEARS | "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars" opener |
| TIDAL | Descriptive of the rise and fall of the fetid albatross (5) |
| DOPPLEREFFECT | Changes of wave frequency causing the rise and fall of pitch as a train passes you |
| CHAPPELLROAN | Pop star with the 2023 debut album "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess" |
| CHAPPELL | _ Roan, pop singer behind the UK No 1 album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (8) |
