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
Esther Meynell: The Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach (1925)[1]
James Runcie: The Great Passion (2022)[2]
Arnold Bax
Rebecca West: Harriet Hume (1929) (The title character based on Harriet Cohen)[3]
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jessica Duchan: Immortal (2020)[4]
Sanford Friedman: Conversations with Beethoven (1980s, published in 2014)[5]
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
Edmund Crispen: Holy Disorders (1945) (as Geoffrey Vintner)[43]
Erik Satie
Caitlin Horrocks: Vexations (2019)[44]
Arnold Schoenberg
Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus (1947) (aspects of Adrian Leverkühn, see also Wolf)[45]
Franz Schubert
Peter Härtling: Schubert: A Novel (1995)
Gaëlle Josse: Un été à quatre mains
Clara Schumann
Janice Galloway: Clara (2004)[46]
Elisabeth Kyle: Duet: The Story of Robert and Clara Schumann (1968)
J. D. Landis: Longing (2000)[47]
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
Julian Barnes: The Noise of Time (2016)[5]
David Pownall: Master Class (1982)[22]
Sarah Quigley: The Conductor (2012)[49]
William T. Vollmann: Europe Central (2005)[50]
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
E. F. Benson: Dodo (1893) (as Edith Stains)[8]
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
Nicholas Meyer. The West End Horror (1976)[54]
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]
^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
^ abCorymbus: The Music That Time Forgot
^Duchan, Jessica. Immortal at Unbound
^ abcdefghijklmnFreya 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
^ abcdefWeliver, Phyllis. The Musical Crowd in English Fiction (2006)
^review, Publishers Weekly
^ abcdefghijklmM.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
^ abFry, Helen. Music & men : the life and loves of Harriet Cohen (2008)
^Collett, Derek (2015). His Own Executioner: The Life of Nigel Balchin. SilverWood. ISBN 978-1-78132-391-5.
^Claire de Lune review, Montreal Gazette, 24 November, 1962
^ abcdefAmos, 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)
^ abcdefgThe Composer Plays, Oberon (1996)
^ abRhapsody, 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
^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. ISBN 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'
^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)
^ abSmith, 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)
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