Across
- 4. Operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan
- 5. Repeated rhythmic cell
- 7. 'Sinfonia _______' Nielsen's 3rd Symphony
- 10. Sometimes used by guitarists
- 12. Work by Nielsen
- 14. 'The Song of a Great City'
- 15. Welsh composer
- 18. Composer who's pupils included Dave Brubeck
- 19. When we went on holidays, Claire would listen to this band while I wanted Bach
- 20. Mozart and Sibelius were one of these
- 21. Stravinsky said of the organ, "The monster never _______"
- 25. Quietest keyboard instrument
- 26. Word meaning silence in an orchestral part
- 28. 50th anniversary of this composer's death in 1975
- 29. German composer whose name is a palindrome
- 33. Used on a trombone
- 34. Collection of cartoon animations of classical music
- 35. Instruments in a Renaissance string consort
- 36. Meaning lively
Down
- 1. Baroque dance with two upbeats
- 2. Brass instruments often use these
- 3. Composer of 'The Protecting Veil'
- 6. Only animal Saint-Saens allowed published from his 'Carnival'
- 8. Top end of violin, above tuning pegs
- 9. Sometimes sung in a last verse
- 11. Concert Hall in Watford recently reopened in 2025 with fantastic events programmed
- 13. Musician who recorded Ravel's G major concerto directing from the piano in 1946
- 16. Overtones
- 17. You hate this clarinet concerto!
- 22. Orchestra founded in Manchester since 1858
- 23. 'The ________' Opera by Ethel Smyth
- 24. Authentic edition of a score
- 27. Type of brass instrument
- 30. Composer of 'Cuban Overture'
- 31. Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731) invented this instrument
- 32. City where Elgar premiered 'Falstaff' in 1913