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 |
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| 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" | 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