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Mozart and the Wolf Gang is a 1991 novel by Anthony Burgess about the life and world of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Among other things, it attempts to fictionalize Mozart's Symphony No.40.
The book is one of a group of Burgess novels with musical themes, the others being Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements, which is built around Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, A Clockwork Orange, in which Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 features prominently, and The Pianoplayers, about the music hall era.
Mozart and the Wolf Gang brings to life various composers through fictional representations: Prokofiev, Gershwin, Elgar, Rossini, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Wagner and Schoenberg feature in various dialogues.
In the same year, 1991, that he published the novel, Burgess brought out a work on the composer entitled On Mozart: A Paean for Wolfgang, Being a Celestial Colloquy, an Opera Libretto, a Film Script, a Schizophrenic Dialogue, a Bewildered Rumination.
Works of Anthony Burgess Novels The Malayan Trilogy · Time for a Tiger · The Enemy in the Blanket · Beds in the East · The Right to an Answer · The Doctor is Sick · The Worm and the Ring · Devil of a State · One Hand Clapping · A Clockwork Orange · The Wanting Seed · Honey for the Bears · Inside Mr. Enderby · The Eve of St. Venus · Nothing Like the Sun · A Vision of Battlements · Tremor of Intent · Enderby Outside · M/F · Napoleon Symphony · The Clockwork Testament · Beard's Roman Women · Abba Abba · 1985 · Man of Nazareth · Earthly Powers · The End of the World News · Enderby's Dark Lady · The Kingdom of the Wicked · The Pianoplayers · Any Old Iron · Mozart and the Wolf Gang · A Dead Man in Deptford · ByrneShort stories Poetry Moses: A Narrative · Revolutionary SonnetsEssays Critical works Operettas Symphonies Autobiography Categories:- 1991 novels
- Novels by Anthony Burgess
- Novels about composers
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