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Wealth coming to composer, man of musical variations (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

goldberg

'man of musical variations' is the definition.
(reference to Bach's Goldberg Variations)

'wealth coming to composer' is the wordplay.
'wealth' becomes 'gold' (gold is a kind of wealth).
'coming to' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'composer' becomes 'berg' (20th Century Austrian composer).
'gold'+'berg'='GOLDBERG'

(Other definitions for goldberg that I've seen before include "harpsichord variations" , "Bach wrote the - Variations" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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