List of composers in literature (original) (raw)
This list includes fictional representations of real (named) composers and musicians, and of fictional characters under other names that are generally agreed to be based on a specific composer, or sometimes a composite of several. Johann Sebastian Bach * Esther Meynell: The Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach (1925) Arnold Bax * Rebecca West: Harriet Hume (1929) (The title character based on Harriet Cohen) Ludwig van Beethoven William Sterndale Bennett * Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Starwood Burney) Hector Berlioz Lord Berners Hildegard of Bingen Mario Braggiotti Thomas Busby
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| dbo:abstract | This list includes fictional representations of real (named) composers and musicians, and of fictional characters under other names that are generally agreed to be based on a specific composer, or sometimes a composite of several. Johann Sebastian Bach * Esther Meynell: The Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach (1925) Arnold Bax * Rebecca West: Harriet Hume (1929) (The title character based on Harriet Cohen) Ludwig van Beethoven * Jessica Duchan: Immortal (2020) * Sanford Friedman: Conversations with Beethoven (1980s, published in 2014) * Paul Griffiths: Mr Beethoven (2020) * Esther Meynell: Grave Fairytale (1931) (as Melchior) * Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Rumour: A Novel (1858) (as Rodomant) * John Suchet: The Last Master (1997–99) (fictional biography in three volumes) William Sterndale Bennett * Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Starwood Burney) Hector Berlioz * Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991) * Jude Morgan: Symphony (2006) * Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Florimond Anastasa) Lord Berners * Nancy Mitford: The Pursuit of Love (1945) (as Lord Merlin) * Osbert Sitwell: 'The Love Bird' from Dumb Animal and Other Stories (1930) (as Sir Robert Mainwroth) Hildegard of Bingen * Mary Sharratt: Illuminations (2012) Mario Braggiotti * F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is The Night (1934) (as Tommy Barban) Benjamin Britten * Ian McEwan: Amsterdam (1998) (Clive Linley, correspondencies with Britten) Thomas Busby * George Borrow: Lavengro (1851) (as editor of the "Universal Review") Frédéric Chopin * George Sand: Lucrezia Floriani (1846) * Nell Stevens: Briefly, a Delicious Life (2022) Harriet Cohen * William Gerhardie: Pending Heaven (1930) (as Helen Sapphire) * D H Lawrence: Kangeroo (1923) (as Harriet) * Rebecca West: Harriet Hume (1929) Michael Costa * Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as St Michel) Noël Coward * Charles Brackett: Entirely Surrounded (1934) (as Nick Farraday) * Beverley Nichols: Death to Slow Music (as Nigel Fleet) * David Pownall: Facade (radio play, 2002) Christian Darnton * Nigel Balchin: Darkness Falls From the Air (1942) (as the poet Stephen Ryle) Claude Debussy * Pierre La Mure: Clair de lune (1962) * Marcel Proust: À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27) (aspects of Vinteuil, see also Franck and Saint-Saëns) Frederick Delius * C F Keary: The Journalist (1898) (as Sophus Jonsen) Edward J Dent * E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) (as Philip Herriton) Arnold Dolmetsch * George Moore: Evelyn Innes (1898) (as the father of Evelyn) Edward Elgar * Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991) * James Hamilton-Paterson: Gerontius (1989) * David Pownall: Elgar’s Rondo (1993) * David Pownall: Elgar’s Third (1994) César Franck * Marcel Proust: À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27) (aspects of Vinteuil, see also Debussy and Saint-Saëns) George Gershwin * Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991) * Mitchell James Kaplan. Rhapsody (2021) * George Kaufman and Moss Hart: Merrily We Roll Along (1934) (as Sam Frankl) Carlo Gesualdo * David Pownall: Music to Murder By (1976) Jimmy Glover * George Moore: A Mummer's Wife (1885) (as Montgomery) Glenn Gould * Christopher Miller: Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects: A Novel in Liner Notes (2004) Cecil Gray * H.D.: Bid Me to Live (1960) (as Vane) * Aldous Huxley: Antic Hay (1923) (as the critic Mercaptan) * D.H.Lawrence: Aaron's Rod (1922) (as Cyril Scott) * D.H.Lawrence: Kangaroo (1923) (as James Sharpe) * Anthony Powell: Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (Maclintick and Gossege as a composite) George Frideric Handel * Nick Drake: All the Angels: Handel and the First Messiah (2015) Josef Matthias Hauer * Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game (1943) (as model for Joculator Basiliensis ("the player from Basel"). * ': Sonnenmelodie (1923) * Franz Werfel: (1924) (as Matthias Fischboeck) Charles Edward Horsley * Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Charles Auchester) John Pyke Hullah * Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Lenhart Davy) Halfdan Jebe * C F Keary: The Journalist (1898) (as Hauch) Maurice Jacobson * Stevie Smith: Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) (as Herman) Joseph Joachim * Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Charles Auchester) Aram Khachaturian * David Pownall: Master Class (1982) Constant Lambert * Anthony Powell: Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (as Moreland) * David Pownall: Facade (radio play, 2002) Henry Lawes * Robert Graves: Wife to Mr Milton (1942) Franz Liszt * Daniel Stern: Nélida (1846) * Susanne Dunlap: Liszt's Kiss (2007) * George Eliot: Daniel Deronda (1876) (aspects of Julius Klesmer, see also Rubenstein) Elisabeth Lutyens * Henry Reed: The Private Life of Hilda Tablet (1954) (as Tablet) Alma Mahler * Max Phillips: The Artist’s Wife (2001) * Mary Sharratt: Ecstasy (2018) Gustav Mahler * Ronald Harwood: Mahler’s Conversion (2001) * Thomas Mann: Death in Venice (aspects of the author Aschenbach) * Stefan Zweig: The Return of Gustav Mahler (1915), semi-fictional essay Fanny Mendelssohn * Peter Härtling: Liebste Fenchel (2011) * Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Maria Cerinthea) Felix Mendelssohn * Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991) * Pierre La Mure: Beyond Desire (1955) * Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Seraphael) Noel Mewton-Wood * Sonia Orchard: The Virtuosso (2009) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart * Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991) * Stephanie Cowell: Marrying Mozart (2004) * Alexander Pushkin: Mozart and Salieri (1830) * Peter Shaffer: Amadeus (1979) Hubert Parry * George Bernard Shaw: Love Among the Artists (1881) (as Owen Jack) Helen Perkin * Carl Ginsburg: Medicine Journeys: Ten Stories (Center Press, 1983) (as Mrs Todd Ashby) Sergei Prokofiev * Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991) * David Pownall: Master Class (1982) Maurice Ravel * Arnold Bennett: The Lion's Share (1916) {as Roussel) Gioachino Rossini * Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991) Anton Rubinstein * George Eliot: Daniel Deronda (1876) (aspects of Julius Klesmer, see also Liszt) Camille Saint-Saëns * Marcel Proust: À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27) (aspects of Vinteuil, see also Debussy and Franck) Antonio Salieri * Alexander Pushkin: Mozart and Salieri (1830) * Peter Shaffer: Amadeus (1979) Godfrey Sampson * Edmund Crispen: Holy Disorders (1945) (as Geoffrey Vintner) Erik Satie * Caitlin Horrocks: Vexations (2019) Arnold Schoenberg * Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus (1947) (aspects of Adrian Leverkühn, see also Wolf) Franz Schubert * Peter Härtling: Schubert: A Novel (1995) * Gaëlle Josse: Un été à quatre mains Clara Schumann * Janice Galloway: Clara (2004) * J. D. Landis: Longing (2000) Robert Schumann * Jessica Duchen: Ghost Variations (2016) * Peter Härtling: Schumanns Schatten (1996) Dmitri Shostakovich * Julian Barnes: The Noise of Time (2016) * David Pownall: Master Class (1982) * Sarah Quigley: The Conductor (2012) * William T. Vollmann: Europe Central (2005) Jean Sibelius * Simon Boswell: The Seven Symphonies: A Finnish Murder Mystery (2005) * Caroline J Sinclair: My Music, My Drinking & Me (2015) (fictionalised memoir) Ethel Smyth * E. F. Benson: Dodo (1893) (as Edith Stains) Kaikhosru Sorabji * Christopher Miller: Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects: A Novel in Liner Notes (2004) Barbara Strozzi * Russell Hoban. My Tango with Barbara Strozzi (2007) ((as modern day Bertha Strunk) Kay Swift * Mitchell James Kaplan. Rhapsody (2021) Antonio Vivaldi * Barbara Quick: Vivaldi's Virgins (2007) William Walton * Lord Berners: Count Omega (1941) (as Emmanuel Smith) * David Pownall: Facade (radio play, 2002) Richard Wagner * Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991) Peter Warlock * Frank Baker: The Birds (1936) (as Paul Weaver) * Ralph Bates: Dead End of the Sky (1937) (as Robert Durand) * Robertson Davies: A Mixture of Frailties (1958) (as Giles Revelstoke) * Aldous Huxley: Antic Hay (1923) (as Coleman) * D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love (1921) (as Julius Halliday) * Anthony Powell: Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960) (aspects of Maclintick) * David Pownall: Music to Murder By (1976) * Jean Rhys: Till September Petronella (short story, 1930s) (as Julian Oakes) * Osbert Sitwell: Those Were the Days (1938) (as Roy Hartle) Hugo Wolf * Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus (1947) (aspects of Adrian Leverkühn, see also Schoenberg) Carl Friedrich Zelter * Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Aronach) (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | This list includes fictional representations of real (named) composers and musicians, and of fictional characters under other names that are generally agreed to be based on a specific composer, or sometimes a composite of several. Johann Sebastian Bach * Esther Meynell: The Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach (1925) Arnold Bax * Rebecca West: Harriet Hume (1929) (The title character based on Harriet Cohen) Ludwig van Beethoven William Sterndale Bennett * Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Starwood Burney) Hector Berlioz Lord Berners Hildegard of Bingen Mario Braggiotti Thomas Busby (en) |
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