List of classical music in literature
List of classical music pieces which inspired or are mentioned explicitly in literature.
Composer |
MusicAL Piece |
Author |
Literary Work |
|---|---|---|---|
Bach |
The Goldberg Variations |
Powers, Richard |
The Gold Bug Variations (1991) |
Beethoven |
Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" |
Burgess, Anthony |
Napoleon Symphony (1974) |
Beethoven |
Violin Sonata No. 9 "Kreutzer" |
Tolstoy, Leo |
The Kreutzer Sonata (1889) |
Beethoven |
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 |
Forster, E.M. |
Howard's End (1910) |
Beethoven |
Piano Trio, Op. 97 “Archduke Trio” 1. Allegro (performed by Rubinstein, Heifetz, Feuermann "The Million Dollar Trio" ) |
Murakami, Haruki |
Kafka on the Shore (2002) |
Beethoven |
Symphony No. 9 "Choral" |
Burgess, Anthony |
A Clockwork Orange (1962) |
Debussey |
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun |
Burgess, Anthony |
The Devil's Mode (1989) |
Handel |
Water Music |
Boyle, T.C. |
Water Music (1982) |
Janáček |
Sinfonietta |
Murakami, Haruki |
1Q84 (2009) |
Liszt |
"Le Mal du Pays" from "Years of Pilgrimage, Year One: Switzerland" (performed by Lazar Berman) |
Murakami, Haruki |
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2013) |
Mozart |
Symphony No. 39 in "E-Flat Symphony" |
Hardy, Thomas |
Lines to a Movement in Mozart’s E-Flat Symphony (1917) |
Mozart |
Symphony No. 40 |
Burgess, Anthony |
Mozart and the Wolf Gang (1991) |
Raff |
Symphony No. 5 "Lenore" |
[Jessie Fothergill|Fothergill, Jessie]] |
The First Violin (1877) |
Scriabin |
Symphony No. 3 "The Divine Poem" |
Pasternak, Boris |
Themes and Variations (1917) |
Tartini |
Violin Sonata in G minor "Devil's Trill Sonata" |
Lalande, Jérôme |
Voyage d'un françois en Italie (1769) |
External Links
1. http://www.gramophone.co.uk/forum/general-discussion/music-in-literature
Further Reading
1. A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess by Paul Phillips