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A Classical Crossword

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Some classical music all the way from Baroque to today - all composers and works mentioned are guaranteed to please the ear. Personalities are by last name and US spelling only unless clue indicates otherwise. Enjoy - and listen to some good classical music while you solve!
Author: WesleyCrusher - Diff: Harder

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      1. German Romantic composer: "Titan Symphony" (6,6)
      7. 1783 Mozart opera: "___ sposo deluso"
      8. Musical piece for 3 performers
      9. 1882 opera by Richard Wagner
      11. Baroque work type: Concerto ___
      12. 1787 Mozart opera: "Don ___"
      14. Galilean moon of Jupiter
      16. 1937 opera by Alban Berg
      18. Getting faster
      20. German 20th century composer: "Circe", "Der Revisor"
      22. Baroque plucked string instrument
      23. Instruction to play the entire work again (abbrev.)
      25. Low female singing voice
      26. British Romantic composer: "Pomp and Circumstances"
      28. Spanish article
      29. "Vivace" is ___ slow
      30. Musical instruction: very softly (abbrev.)
      32. Hungarian Romantic composer: "The Legend of St. Elisabeth"
      33. Title of Beethoven's 3rd symphony
      35. Silent interval between two notes
      36. Symphony by Camille Saint-Saens: "Urbs ___"
      37. German Classical composer: "The Clock", "Drumroll Symphony"
      38. Medium on which most classical music was sold in 2010
      40. German Classical composer: "Ode to Joy", "Fidelio"

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      1. Baroque composer: "Water Music" (6,6)
      2. Quietly, in an undertone (5,4)
      3. Tenor member of the string family
      4. Playing a chord as a rapid sequence of notes
      5. Slowly, broadly
      6. Hungarian-British conductor (1912-1997)
      7. Solfeggio for the sixth note
      10. Last, often triumphant, movement of a work
      13. Fast, as in a cadence
      15. Number of singers in an aria
      17. TLD for Uganda
      19. British composer of chorals and anthems, born 1945
      21. German conductor, worked with the Berlin Philharmonic
      24. Focal, most emotional moment of a musical work
      25. First name of German composer Bruckner
      27. 1978 opera by Albert Reimann based on a Shakespearean king
      30. Position (abbrev.)
      31. Tonal quality of a musical note, frequency
      34. Song by Claude Debussy: "De ___" (first of four in cycle)
      39. Solfeggio for the first note