List of composers in literature
This list includes fictional representations of real 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. It doesn't include biographies, unless fictionalized.
Johann Sebastian Bach
- Esther Meynell: The Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach
- Marc Moskovitz: The Eyes of Bach
- James Runcie: The Great Passion
- Rebecca West: Harriet Hume
- Jonathan Wylie: Magister
- Andrew Crumey: Beethoven's Assassins
- Jessica Duchan: Immortal
- Sanford Friedman: Conversations with Beethoven
- Paul Griffiths: Mr Beethoven
- Esther Meynell: Grave Fairytale
- Patricia Morrisroe: The Woman in the Moonlight
- Ken Russell: Beethoven Confidential
- Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Rumour: A Novel
- John Suchet: The Last Master
- Dorothy Baker: Young Man With a Horn
- George Willis: Three Musicians Trilogy
- Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester
- Christine Balint: Ophelia's Fan: A Novel
- Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang
- Jude Morgan: Symphony
- Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester
- Nancy Mitford: The Pursuit of Love
- Osbert Sitwell: 'The Love Bird' from Dumb Animal and Other Stories
- P.K. Adams: The Greenest Branch and The Column of Burning Spices
- Mary Sharratt: Illuminations
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is The Night
- Boman Desai: Trio: A Novel Biography of the Schumanns and Brahms
- J. D. Landis: Longing
- Louise Marley: The Brahms Deception
- Ken Russell: Brahms Gets Laid
- Kristen Wolf: Escapement
- Ian McEwan: Amsterdam
- George Borrow: Lavengro
- Elizabeth Berg: Dream Lover
- Nancy Burkhalter: The Education of Delhomme: Chopin, Sand, and La France
- Jean Echenoz: Lac
- George Sand: Lucrezia Floriani
- Nell Stevens: Briefly, a Delicious Life
- Leon Thornber: Bitter Glory. A Novel of the Life of Chopin
- William Gerhardie: Pending Heaven
- D H Lawrence: Kangeroo
- Rebecca West: Harriet Hume
- Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester
- Charles Brackett: Entirely Surrounded
- George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart: The Man Who Came to Dinner
- Beverley Nichols: Death to Slow Music
- David Pownall: Facade
- Keith Winter: Impassioned Pygmies
- Nigel Balchin: Darkness Falls From the Air
- Anthony Burgess: '1889 and the Devil's Mode', short story in The Devil's Mode
- Pierre La Mure: Clair de lune
- Marcel Proust: À la recherche du temps perdu
- C F Keary: The Journalist
- David Mitchell. Cloud Atlas
- Ken Russell: Delius: A Moment with Venus
Delia Derbyshire
- Rosemary Tonks: The Bloater
- George Moore: Evelyn Innes
- Sarah Quigley: The Conductor
- Keith Alldritt: Elgar on the Journey to Hanley: A Novel
- Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang
- James Hamilton-Paterson: Gerontius
- James Miles: The Worcester Enigma
- David Pownall: Elgar’s Rondo and Elgar's Third
- Ken Russell: Elgar: the Erotic Variations
- Ronald Harwood: Cesar and Augusta
- Marcel Proust: À la recherche du temps perdu
- Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang
- Steve Exeter. Debussy's Slippers
- Laura Frankos: Broadway Revival
- Mitchell James Kaplan. Rhapsody
- George Kaufman and Moss Hart: Merrily We Roll Along
- Michel Breitman: Le Témoin de poussière
- Joel Epstein: The Curse of Gesualdo: Music, Murder and Madness
- Fran Kempton: The Devil's Tune: a Tale of Music, Murder and Revenge
- David Pownall: Music to Murder By
- Erika Rummel: The Road to Gesualdo
- George Moore: A Mummer's Wife
- Inez Baranay: Pagan
- Louis Nowra: The Devil is a Woman
- Thomas Bernhard: The Loser
- Christopher Miller: Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects: A Novel in Liner Notes
- H.D.: Bid Me to Live
- Aldous Huxley: Antic Hay
- D. H.Lawrence: Aaron's Rod
- D. H.Lawrence: Kangaroo
- Anthony Powell: Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
George Frideric Handel
- Nick Drake: All the Angels: Handel and the First Messiah
- Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game .
- ': Sonnenmelodie
- Franz Werfel: '
- Ronald Harwood: Cesar and Augusta
- Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester
- Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester
- C F Keary: The Journalist
- Stevie Smith: Novel on Yellow Paper
- Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester
- David Pownall: Master Class
- Anthony Powell: Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
- David Pownall: Facade
Madame Levinskaya
- Bernice Rubens: Madame Sousatzka
- Daniel Stern: Nélida
- Honoré de Balzac: Béatrix
- Susanne Dunlap: Liszt's Kiss
- George Eliot: Daniel Deronda
- Julian Livingston: The Anonymous North American Tour of Franz Liszt
- Sarah Rayne: Music Macabre
- John Spurling: A Book of Liszts: Variations on the Theme of Franz Liszt
- Henry Reed: The Private Life of Hilda Tablet
- Joseph Horowitz: The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York
- Max Phillips: The Artist’s Wife
- James Reidel: Manon's World
- Mary Sharratt: Ecstasy
- Willa Cather: The Song of the Lark
- Ronald Harwood: Mahler’s Conversion
- Joseph Horowitz: The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York
- Thomas Mann: Death in Venice
- Frank Tallis: Death and the Maiden
- Stefan Zweig: The Return of Gustav Mahler, semi-fictional essay
Fanny Mendelssohn
- Peter Härtling: Liebste Fenchel
- Myla Lichtman-Fields: Felix and Fanny
- Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester
- Rosemarie Bodenheimer: Mendelssohn & Co: a Fictive Memoir
- Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang
- Pierre La Mure: Beyond Desire
- George Sampson: A Day with Mendelssohn
- Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester
- Sonia Orchard: The Virtuosso
- Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang
- Rita Charbonnier: The Death of Mozart
- Stephanie Cowell: Marrying Mozart
- Eduard Mörike: Mozart's Journey to Prague
- Alexander Pushkin: Mozart and Salieri
- Matt Rees: Mozart's Last Aria
- Peter Shaffer: Amadeus
- Julian Barnes: 'Harmony', from the short story collection Pulse
- Brian O'Doherty: The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P
- Michèle Halberstadt. The Pianist in the Dark
- Jean Thuillier: Franz Anton Mesmer ou L'extase Magnétique
- Alissa Walser: Mesmerized
- George Bernard Shaw: Love Among the Artists
- Carl Ginsburg: Medicine Journeys: Ten Stories
- Julian Barnes: The Noise of Time
- Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang
- David Pownall: Master Class
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