One of music's "Three B's"

The answer

BACH

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BACH answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• BRAHMS (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for BACH

Every other clue in this collection answered by BACH, most used first.

• "Brandenburg Concertos" composer - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• "Goldberg Variations" composer - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• One of the Three B's - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• "Coffee Cantata" composer - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Johann Sebastian ___ - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Composer Johann Sebastian - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• "Art of the Fugue" composer - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• "Mass in B Minor" composer - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Art of Fugue" composer - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• Baroque master - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
• Cantata composer - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
• "St. Matthew Passion" composer - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• "The Well-Tempered Clavier" composer - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• German composer - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• "St. John Passion" composer - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Baroque composer - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Fugue master - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Handel contemporary - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• Composer J.S. - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Fugue composer - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
• Great name in music. - used 7 times, most recently in 1967
• One of the Three B's of classical music - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• One of three B's - used 7 times, most recently in 2003
• Skid Row lead singer Sebastian - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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