| STAINER | Sir John ___, British composer and organist whose works include the oratorio The Crucifixion |
| HENZE | Hans Werner ___, German composer whose works include the oratorio The Raft of the Medusa |
| TAVENER | Sir John ___, British composer whose works include Song for Athene, performed at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997 |
| MICHAELTIPPETT | English composer whose works include the oratorio A Child of Our Time and the opera The Midsummer Marriage |
| MCCABE | John ___, British composer and pianist who was director of the London College of Music from 1983 to 1990 |
| BLISS | Sir Arthur _; British composer and former Master of the Queen's Music (5) |
| MAXREGER | German composer and organist whose works include 1903's Gesang der Verklarten (3,5) |
| GIELGUD | Sir John ___, British classical actor (7) |
| MESSIAEN | Olivier ___, French musician and organist whose works include the Turangalila-Symphonie |
| JOHNBLOW | English Baroque composer and organist whose only stage composition was the opera Venus and Adonis |
| GUSTAVHOLST | British composer and trombonist whose works include the operas The Perfect Fool (1923) and The Wandering Scholar |
| JOSEPH | and 28dn, Austrian composer who wrote the oratorios The Creation and The Seasons |
| HAYDN | see 2dn, Austrian composer who wrote the oratorios The Creation and The Seasons |
| ELGAR | Edward, composer of the oratorio The Dream of Gerontius (5) |
| JOSEPHHAYDN | He composed the oratorio The Creation first performed in 1798 (6,5) |
| BENNETT | Sir Richard Rodney ___, British composer whose operas include The Mines of Sulphur and Victory |
| ADES | Thomas, British composer and conductor noted for his 2004 opera The Tempest (4) |
| STANLEY | John ___, 18th-century organist; composer of the oratorio Jephthah (7) |
| HANDEL | British composer of German birth, the 'father of the oratorio' (6) |
| GURNEY | Ivor ___, British composer whose volumes of poetry include 1917's Severn & Somme (6) |
