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
Johann Sebastian Bach	Goldberg Variations	Richard Powers	The Gold Bug Variations (1991)
Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"	Anthony Burgess	Napoleon Symphony (1974)
Beethoven	Violin Sonata No. 9 "Kreutzer"	Leo Tolstoy	The Kreutzer Sonata (1889)
Beethoven	Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67	E. M. Forster	Howards End (1910)
Beethoven	Piano Trio, Op. 97 "Archduke Trio" 1. Allegro (performed by Arthur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz and Emanuel Feuermann)	Haruki Murakami	Kafka on the Shore (2002)
Beethoven	Symphony No. 9 "Choral"	Anthony Burgess	A Clockwork Orange (1962)
Claude Debussy	Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune	Anthony Burgess	The Devil's Mode (1989)
Anton Diabelli	Sonatina in F major, Op 168 No. 1	Marguerite Duras	Moderato Cantabile (1958)
George Frideric Handel	Water Music	T. C. Boyle	Water Music (1982)
Leoš Janáček	Sinfonietta	Haruki Murakami	1Q84 (2009)
Franz Liszt	"Le Mal du Pays" from Années de pèlerinage, Year One: Switzerland (performed by Lazar Berman)	Haruki Murakami	Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2013)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Symphony No. 39 in "E-Flat Symphony"	Thomas Hardy	Lines to a Movement in Mozart's E-Flat Symphony (1917)
Mozart	Symphony No. 40	Anthony Burgess	Mozart and the Wolf Gang (1991)
Joachim Raff	Symphony No. 5 "Lenore"	Jessie Fothergill	The First Violin (1877)
Alexander Scriabin	Symphony No. 3 "The Divine Poem"	Boris Pasternak	Themes and Variations (1917)
Giuseppe Tartini	Violin Sonata in G minor "Devil's Trill Sonata"	Jérôme Lalande	Voyage d'un françois en Italie (1769)

See also

External links

• http://www.gramophone.co.uk/forum/general-discussion/music-in-literature

Further reading

• A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess by Paul Phillips