Mozart and the Wolf Gang
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Cover artist (bottom): Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, Les Gentilshommes du Duc d'Orléans
1839Cover artist (bottom): Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, Les Gentilshommes du Duc d'Orléans
Mozart and the Wolf Gang is a 1991 novel by Anthony Burgess about the life and world of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Published in the U.K. under this title, in the U.S. it was published as On Mozart: A Paean for Wolfgang, Being a Celestial Colloquy, an Opera Libretto, a Film Script, a Schizophrenic Dialogue, a Bewildered Rumination.[1]
Among other things, it attempts to fictionalize Mozart's Symphony No.40.[2]
This is one of numerous Burgess books in which music figures prominently, others being .
Mozart and the Wolf Gang brings to life various composers through fictional representations:
Wagner and Schoenberg feature in various dialogues.[3]
References
- ^ Coe, Jonathan (3 October 1991). "Libretto for a magic flautist". The Guardian. p. 26. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
- ^ Riemer, Andrew (22 February 1992). "Clive's Brill Burn Through Thatcher's Hell". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 43. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
- ^ Whitcomb, Ian (15 December 1991). "Burgess on Mozart fizzes up the brain". Austin American-Statesman. p. 90. Retrieved 10 November 2021.