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* [[Janice Galloway]]: ”Clara” (2004)<ref>[https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/103/1038457/clara/9780099750512.html Penguin Books]</ref> |
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* [[Elisabeth Kyle]]: ”Duet: The Story of Robert and Clara Schumann” (1968) |
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* [[J. D. Landis]]: ”Longing” (2000)<ref>[https://www.artinfiction.com/novels/longing Art in Fiction. ”Longing”]</ref> |
* [[J. D. Landis]]: ”Longing” (2000)<ref>[https://www.artinfiction.com/novels/longing Art in Fiction. ”Longing”]</ref> |
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* Kristen Wolf: ”Escapement” (2018) |
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Latest revision as of 21:00, 26 October 2025
This list includes fictional representations of real (named) composers and musicians, and fictional characters under other names that are generally agreed to be based on a specific composer, or sometimes a composite of several.
- Rebecca West: Harriet Hume (1929) (The title character is based on Harriet Cohen, the Bax character is named Arnold Condorex)[3]
- Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991)[5]
- Jude Morgan: Symphony (2006)[9]
- Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Florimond Anastasa)[10]
- Mary Sharratt: Illuminations (2012)[5]
- Kristen Wolf: Escapement (2018)
- Ian McEwan: Amsterdam (1998) (Clive Linley, correspondencies with Britten)[13]
- George Borrow: Lavengro (1851) (as editor of the “Universal Review”)[10]
- Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as St Michel)[10]
- Marcel Proust: À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27) (aspects of Vinteuil, see also Debussy and Saint-Saëns)
- David Pownall: Music to Murder By (1976)[22]
- Inez Baranay: Pagan (1990)
- Louis Nowra: The Devil is a Woman (2004)
- Christopher Miller: Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects: A Novel in Liner Notes (2004)[24]
- Nick Drake: All the Angels: Handel and the First Messiah (2015)
- Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Charles Auchester)[8]
- Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Lenhart Davy)[10]
- C F Keary: The Journalist (1898) (as Hauch)[28]
- Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Charles Auchester)[10]
Florence Ashton Marshall (and her sister, the clarinettist Frances Marshall)
- Peter Härtling: Liebste Fenchel (2011)
- Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Maria Cerinthea)[10]
- Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991)[5]
- Pierre La Mure: Beyond Desire (1955)[41]
- Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Seraphael)[8]
- Sonia Orchard: The Virtuosso (2009)[42]
- Julian Barnes: ‘Harmony’, from the short story collection Pulse (2011)
- Brian O’Doherty: The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P (1992)
- Michèle Halberstadt. The Pianist in the Dark (2011)
- Jean Thuillier: Franz Anton Mesmer ou L’extase Magnétique (1988)
- Alissa Walser: Mesmerized (2012)
- Carl Ginsburg: Medicine Journeys: Ten Stories (Center Press, 1983) (as Mrs Todd Ashby)[43]
- Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991)[5]
- George Eliot: Daniel Deronda (1876) (aspects of Julius Klesmer, see also Liszt)[19]
- Marcel Proust: À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27) (aspects of Vinteuil, see also Debussy and Franck)
- Alexander Pushkin: Mozart and Salieri (1830)
- Peter Shaffer: Amadeus (1979)
- Caitlin Horrocks: Vexations (2019)[46]
- Janice Galloway: Clara (2004)[48]
- Dieter Kühn: Familientreffen (play, 1988)
- Elisabeth Kyle: Duet: The Story of Robert and Clara Schumann (1968)
- J. D. Landis: Longing (2000)[49]
- Werner Quednau: Clara Schumann (1955)
- Kristen Wolf: Escapement (2018)
- Jessica Duchen: Ghost Variations (2016)[50]
- Elisabeth Kyle: Duet: The Story of Robert and Clara Schumann (1968)
- Peter Härtling: Schumanns Schatten (1996)
- Kristen Wolf: Escapement (2018)
- Simon Boswell: The Seven Symphonies: A Finnish Murder Mystery (2005)[53]
- Caroline J Sinclair: My Music, My Drinking & Me (2015) (fictionalised memoir)[54]
- Christopher Miller: Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects: A Novel in Liner Notes (2004)[55]
- Russell Hoban. My Tango with Barbara Strozzi (2007) (as modern day Bertha Strunk)[5]
- Mitchell James Kaplan. Rhapsody (2021)[23]
- Franz Werfel. Verdi: Roman der Oper (1923) (as Matthias Fischboeck)
- Harriet Constable: The Instrumentalist (2024)
- Barbara Quick: Vivaldi’s Virgins (2007)[5]
- Lord Berners: Count Omega (1941) (as Emmanuel Smith)[57]
- David Pownall: Facade (radio play, 2002)
- Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991)[5]
- Frank Baker: The Birds (1936) (as Paul Weaver)
- Ralph Bates: Dead End of the Sky (1937) (as Robert Durand)[58]
- Robertson Davies: A Mixture of Frailties (1958) (as Giles Revelstoke)[59]
- Aldous Huxley: Antic Hay (1923) (as Coleman)[60]
- D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love (1921) (as Julius Halliday)[60]
- Anthony Powell: Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant (1960) (aspects of Maclintick)
- David Pownall: Music to Murder By (1976)[22]
- Jean Rhys: Till September Petronella (short story, 1930s) (as Julian Oakes)[61]
- Osbert Sitwell: Those Were the Days (1938) (as Roy Hartle)
- Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus (1947) (aspects of Adrian Leverkühn, see also Schoenberg)[62]
- Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Aronach)[10]
- ^ A. H. Weiler. “Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)” in The New York Times, April 7, 1969
- ^ Erin Douglass. ‘A novel envisions what it would be like to study with Bach‘, Christian Science Monitor, 29 April 2022
- ^ a b Corymbus: The Music That Time Forgot
- ^ Duchan, Jessica. Immortal at Unbound
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Freya Parr. ‘Ten of the best (and worst) novels about composers‘, BBC Music Magazine, 26 February 2019
- ^ New York Review of Books, 26 October, 2021
- ^ British Musician and Musical News, Vol. 7 no 67, July 1931, p. 153
- ^ a b c d e f Weliver, Phyllis. The Musical Crowd in English Fiction (2006)
- ^ review, Publishers Weekly
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m M.C. Rintoul: Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction (2014)
- ^ Amory, Mark. Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric (1999)
- ^ The Letters of Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Andrew Turnbull (1964), p. 570
- ^ Robert E Kohn. ‘The Fivesquare “Amsterdam” of Ian McEwan’, in Critical Survey, Vol. 16, No. 1 (2004), pp. 89-106
- ^ Diedre Bair. ‘Getting even with Chopin‘, in The New York Times, 11 August 1985, Section 7, p.9
- ^ Pan Macmillian
- ^ a b Fry, Helen. Music & men : the life and loves of Harriet Cohen (2008)
- ^ Collett, Derek (2015). His Own Executioner: The Life of Nigel Balchin. SilverWood. ISBNÂ 978-1-78132-391-5.
- ^ Claire de Lune review, Montreal Gazette, 24 November, 1962
- ^ a b c d e f Amos, William. The Originals: Who’s Really Who in Fiction (1990)
- ^ Audrey Wollen. ‘The Writer Who Burned Her Own Books’, in The New Yorker, 3 January, 2023
- ^ Richard Lines. ‘George Moore’s Evelyn Innes’, in The Norwood Review No 174 (2008)
- ^ a b c d e f g The Composer Plays, Oberon (1996)
- ^ a b Rhapsody, by Mitchell James Kaplan
- ^ Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise blog (2004)
- ^ Leo Hamalian (1996). D. H. Lawrence and Nine Women Writers. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-8386-3603-9.
- ^ Spurling, Hilary: Dancing to the Music of Time, Hamish Hamilton, 2017
- ^ ‘Willa Cather and the Professor’s House’, in Western American Literature, Vol. 7, No. 1, A Willa Cather Issue (Spring 1972), pp. 13-24
- ^ Boyle, Andrew J. Delius and Norway (2017), p. 175
- ^ Bluemel, Kristin. George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics: Intermodernism in Literary London (2004), Chapter 1, p.27-66
- ^ Lloyd, Stephen. Constant Lambert: Beyond The Rio Grande. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2014. ISBNÂ 978-1-84383-898-2
- ^ Allis, Michael. Temporaries and Eternals: The Music Criticism of Aldous Huxley (2013), p. 56
- ^ Nélida, Suny Press
- ^ Walker, Alan. Franz Liszt: The Weimar Years, 1848–1861 (1989), p. 250
- ^ Henry Reed: Hilda Tablet and Others, BBC Books, London, 1971
- ^ Art in Fiction: The Artist’s Wife
- ^ Art in Fiction. Ecstacy
- ^ Faber, Mahler’s Conversion
- ^ ‘Thomas Mann’, Mahler Foundation
- ^ Werley, Matthew. Mahler in Context (2020), Chapter 32, ‘Influences in Literature’
- ^ Shannon Draucker. Sounding Bodies: Acoustical Science and Musical Erotics in Victorian Literature (2024)
- ^ Beyond Desire review, The Age. 12 December, 1956
- ^ Harper Collins, The Virtuosso
- ^ ‘Helen Adie’, at Gurdjieff Club
- ^ Flynn, Jessica (4 May 2010). “Tributes paid to piano great Harold Rubens”. South Wales Echo. Cardiff. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
- ^ Whittle, David. Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books (2008)
- ^ Art in Fiction: Vexations
- ^ Jack M Stein. Adrian Leverkühn as a Composer, Germanic Review, Vol. 25 (1950)
- ^ Penguin Books
- ^ Art in Fiction. Longing
- ^ Art in Fiction. Ghost Variations
- ^ Art in Fiction: The Conductor
- ^ Helga Schwalm. ‘Imagining Compromised Creativity: Art and Fear in Shostakovich Bio-Fiction‘, in Slavonica, Volume 25, 2020 – Issue 1
- ^ sevensymphonies.com
- ^ GoodReads
- ^ Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise blog (2004)
- ^ Eyles, Allen (1986). Sherlock Holmes: A Centenary Celebration. Harper & Row. pp. 118-119. ISBN 0-06-015620-1.
- ^ Lloyd, Stephen. William Walton: Muse of Fire (2002)
- ^ Bates, Ralph. Rainbow Fish: Four Short Novels (1937)
- ^ Allis, Michael. ‘From Musicology to Novel: Reassessing Robertson Davies’s Literary Representation of Peter Warlock’, in University of Toronto Quarterly (Winter 2019)
- ^ a b Smith, Barry. Peter Warlock: The Life of Philip Heseltine (1994)
- ^ Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work (1998)
- ^ Stokes, Richard. The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf: Life, Letters, Lieder (2020)
