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Across 4. Sherlock Holmes instrument of choice 6. Atwood dystopia about subjugated women, Poul Ruders opera, “The _________ Tale” 7. Author of “I promessi sposi” (“The Betrothed”), dedicatee of Verdi Requiem 8. Doctor’s instrument in Patrick O’Brian Aubrey-Maturin novels 10. Hitchcock associate who composed cantata after “Moby Dick” 11. Figure of medieval legend suggested by Thomas Mann fictional composer Adrian Leverkühn 15. Composer hero of Burgess’ ultraviolent Alex 18. Romantic writer of supernatural fiction, also a composer, subject of Offenbach opera 19. Lerner & Loewe musical after “The Once and Future King” 25. Gaston Leroux potboiler set at the Palais Garnier 27. Lewis Carroll protagonist, inspiration for any number of works by David Del Tredici 28. Prokofiev opera after Tolstoy 30. Bernard Herrmann opera after Emily Brontë 31. Jennifer Higdon Civil War opera, after Charles Frazier novel 32. Author of literary “Rings” cycle, inspired symphonies by Sallinen and De Meij 33. Captain Nemo instrument of choice 40. Charles Wuorinen opera after Proulx story of star-crossed cowboys 41. Alcott’s March sisters, also opera by Mark Adamo 43. Elmer, not Leonard, composer of “To Kill a Mockingbird” 44. Britten opera after Melville 48. Magical realist author whose writings inspired Daniel Catan’s “Florencia en el Amazonas“ 49. Italian term for eunuch singer, tradition explored in Anne Rice’s “Cry to Heaven” 50. Dublin exile who inspired Stephen Albert symphony “RiverRun”

Down 1. Washington Irving sleepyhead, inspired music by Chadwick and Bristow 2. Twain jumping frog county of origin, basis of opera by Lukas Foss 3. Bernstein musical after Voltaire 5. Captain’s instrument in Patrick O’Brian Aubrey-Maturin novels 9. “Pelleas” composer, left two unfinished operas after Poe 12. Literate surname of Yankee tunesmith of the First New England School 13. Author of “The Awakening,” shares a surname with tubercular composer-pianist (full name) 14. Quasimodo sanctuary in Franz Schmidt opera after Hugo 16. Carlisle Floyd opera, after Steinbeck 17. “Remembrance of Things Past” writer, lover of composer Reynaldo Hahn 20. Hesse’s Haller, “wolf of the steppes,” admirer of Mozart and W.F. Bach 21. Missy Mazzoli Met commission, after George Saunders experimental bestseller 22. Ann Patchett novel about hostage crisis and music, Italian title means “beautiful singing” 23. Nom de plume of writer Aurore Dupin, lover of Chopin 24. Robert Aldridge opera after Sinclair Lewis novel about huckster evangelist 26. Pen name of “Alice” writer, distant cousin of composer Stephen Dodgson 29. Epic composer “bildungsroman” by Beethoven biographer Romain Rolland 34. Instrument of Gunter Grass’ Oskar 35. Toni Morrison novel, inspiration for Richard Danielpour opera “Margaret Garner” 36. Windmill-tilting hero of Strauss tone poem 37. Lowell Liebermann opera antihero, after “ageless” Oscar Wilde novel 38. New York Philharmonic conductor who wrote opera inspired by “1984” 39. Lost Generation writer and man’s man, basis for Michael Daughtery cello concerto 42. Edward German comic opera after picaresque novel of Henry Fielding 45. Wealthy Long Island obsessive of John Harbison opera after Fitzgerald 46. Prairie author of “Song of the Lark,” about backwater singer who makes it to the Met 47. Copland: “If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be _____”