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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.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Arnold Bax
Rebecca West : Harriet Hume (1929) (The title character based on Harriet Cohen)
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Bix Beiderbecke
William Sterndale Bennett
Hector Berlioz
Anthony Burgess : Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991)
[5]
Jude Morgan: Symphony (2006)
[9]
Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Florimond Anastasa)
[10]
Lord Berners
Hildegard of Bingen
Mary Sharratt: Illuminations (2012)
[5]
Mario Braggiotti
Benjamin Britten
Ian McEwan : Amsterdam (1998) (Clive Linley, correspondencies with Britten)
[13]
Thomas Busby
George Borrow: Lavengro (1851) (as editor of the "Universal Review")
[10]
Frédéric Chopin
Harriet Cohen
Michael Costa
Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as St Michel)
[10]
Noël Coward
Christian Darnton
Claude Debussy
Frederick Delius
Edward J Dent
Delia Derbyshire
Arnold Dolmetsch
Edward Elgar
César Franck
Marcel Proust: À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27) (aspects of Vinteuil, see also Debussy and Saint-Saëns)
George Gershwin
Carlo Gesualdo
David Pownall: Music to Murder By (1976)
[22]
Jimmy Glover
Glenn Gould
Christopher Miller: Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects: A Novel in Liner Notes (2004)
[24]
Cecil Gray
George Frideric Handel
Nick Drake : All the Angels: Handel and the First Messiah (2015)
Josef Matthias Hauer
Charles Edward Horsley
Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Charles Auchester)
[8]
John Pyke Hullah
Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Lenhart Davy)
[10]
Halfdan Jebe
C F Keary: The Journalist (1898) (as Hauch)
[27]
Maurice Jacobson
Joseph Joachim
Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Charles Auchester)
[10]
Aram Khachaturian
Constant Lambert
Henry Lawes
Madame Levinskaya
Franz Liszt
Elisabeth Lutyens
Alma Mahler
Max Phillips: The Artist’s Wife (2001)
[34]
Mary Sharratt: Ecstasy (2018)
[35]
Gustav Mahler
Fanny Mendelssohn
Peter Härtling : Liebste Fenchel (2011)
Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Maria Cerinthea)
[10]
Felix Mendelssohn
Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991)
[5]
Pierre La Mure: Beyond Desire (1955)
[39]
Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Seraphael)
[8]
Noel Mewton-Wood
Sonia Orchard: The Virtuosso (2009)
[40]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Hubert Parry
Helen Perkin
Carl Ginsburg: Medicine Journeys: Ten Stories (Center Press, 1983) (as Mrs Todd Ashby)
[41]
Sergei Prokofiev
Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991)
[5]
David Pownall: Master Class (1982)
[22]
Maurice Ravel
Gioachino Rossini
Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991)
[5]
Harold Rubens
Anton Rubinstein
George Eliot: Daniel Deronda (1876) (aspects of Julius Klesmer, see also Liszt)
[19]
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
Erik Satie
Caitlin Horrocks: Vexations (2019)
[44]
Arnold Schoenberg
Franz Schubert
Clara Schumann
Robert Schumann
Jessica Duchen : Ghost Variations (2016)
[48]
Elisabeth Kyle: Duet: The Story of Robert and Clara Schumann (1968)
Peter Härtling: Schumanns Schatten (1996)
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jean Sibelius
Simon Boswell: The Seven Symphonies: A Finnish Murder Mystery (2005)
[51]
Caroline J Sinclair: My Music, My Drinking & Me (2015) (fictionalised memoir)
[52]
Ethel Smyth
Kaikhosru Sorabji
Christopher Miller: Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects: A Novel in Liner Notes (2004)
[53]
Barbara Strozzi
Russell Hoban . My Tango with Barbara Strozzi (2007) ((as modern day Bertha Strunk)
[5]
Arthur Sullivan
Kay Swift
Mitchell James Kaplan. Rhapsody (2021)
[23]
Antonio Vivaldi
Barbara Quick: Vivaldi's Virgins (2007)
[5]
William Walton
Lord Berners : Count Omega (1941) (as Emmanuel Smith)
[55]
David Pownall: Facade (radio play, 2002)
Richard Wagner
Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991)
[5]
Peter Warlock
Frank Baker : The Birds (1936) (as Paul Weaver)
Ralph Bates : Dead End of the Sky (1937) (as Robert Durand)
[56]
Robertson Davies :
A Mixture of Frailties (1958) (as Giles Revelstoke)
[57]
Aldous Huxley: Antic Hay (1923) (as Coleman)
[58]
D. H. Lawrence:
Women in Love (1921) (as Julius Halliday)
[58]
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)
[59]
Osbert Sitwell: Those Were the Days (1938) (as Roy Hartle)
Hugo Wolf
Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus (1947) (aspects of Adrian Leverkühn, see also Schoenberg)
[60]
Carl Friedrich Zelter
Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Aronach)
[10]
Further reading
References
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"Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)" in
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^ Erin Douglass. '
A novel envisions what it would be like to study with Bach ', Christian Science Monitor , 29 April 2022
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Ten of the best (and worst) novels about composers ', BBC Music Magazine , 26 February 2019
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British Musician and Musical News , Vol. 7 no 67, July 1931, p. 153
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^ 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
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^ Collett, Derek (2015).
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^ 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)
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Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise blog (2004)
^ Leo Hamalian (1996).
D.H. Lawrence and Nine Women Writers . Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 51.
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Spurling, Hilary: Dancing to the Music of Time , Hamish Hamilton, 2017
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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.
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^ Allis, Michael.
Temporaries and Eternals: The Music Criticism of Aldous Huxley (2013), p. 56
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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
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Art in Fiction. Ecstacy
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Faber, Mahler's Conversion
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'Thomas Mann', Mahler Foundation
^ Werley, Matthew. Mahler in Context (2020), Chapter 32, 'Influences in Literature'
^ Beyond Desire review, The Age . 12 December, 1956
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Harper Collins, The Virtuosso
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'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)
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Art in Fiction: Vexations
^ Jack M Stein.
Adrian Leverkühn as a Composer , Germanic Review , Vol. 25 (1950)
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Penguin Books
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Art in Fiction. Longing
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Art in Fiction. Ghost Variations
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Art in Fiction: The Conductor
^ Helga Schwalm. '
Imagining Compromised Creativity: Art and Fear in Shostakovich Bio-Fiction ', in Slavonica , Volume 25, 2020 - Issue 1
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sevensymphonies.com
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GoodReads
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Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise blog (2004)
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^ 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)
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^ Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work (1998)
^ Stokes, Richard.
The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf: Life, Letters, Lieder (2020)