| WAGNER | German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist (6) |
| NAUMANN | Johann Gottlieb ___, German composer, conductor, and Kapellmeister whose operas include Il tesoro insidiato |
| REINECKE | Carl ___, German composer, conductor and pianist best known for his flute sonata Undine |
| ARNOLD | ****** Schoenberg, composer and music theorist noted for atonality (6) |
| RAMEAU | Jean-Philippe ___, Baroque composer and music theorist who replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera |
| ISAIAH | Sir ...... Berlin, political theorist and philosopher (6) |
| STUART | Cultural theorist and long-serving Open University professor of sociology (6,4) |
| PREVIN | Late German-American composer-conductor, winner of four Academy Awards, knighted in 1996 (6) |
| MAHLER | Austrian composer/conductor (6) |
| BOULEZ | Pierre ___, French composer, conductor and pianist whose works include Pli selon pli |
| ORWELL | George, English novelist and essayist who coined the terms Big Brother and doublethink (6) |
| PROUST | Marcel, French novelist and essayist who died in 1922 (6) |
| AUSTER | Paul, novelist and essayist whose works include The New York Trilogy (6) |
| DOBSON | Name the English poet, biographer, and essayist, (Henry) Austin ... (6) |
| MICHEL | Composer/conductor Legrand |
| GUSTAV | Composer-conductor Mahler |
| BRETON | Andre, French poet and essayist born in 1896 who promoted the Surrealist movement (6) |
| ALBERT | French novelist, dramatist and essayist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957 (6) |
| SONTAG | Susan ---, US intellectual, critic and essayist |
| CAGE | John _, (1912-92), American composer and music theorist (4) |
