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- This list includes fictional representations of real (named) composers and musicians, and of fictional characters under other names that are generally agreed to be based on a specific composer, or sometimes a composite of several. Johann Sebastian Bach
* Esther Meynell: The Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach (1925) Arnold Bax
* Rebecca West: Harriet Hume (1929) (The title character based on Harriet Cohen) Ludwig van Beethoven
* Jessica Duchan: Immortal (2020)
* Sanford Friedman: Conversations with Beethoven (1980s, published in 2014)
* Paul Griffiths: Mr Beethoven (2020)
* Esther Meynell: Grave Fairytale (1931) (as Melchior)
* Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Rumour: A Novel (1858) (as Rodomant)
* John Suchet: The Last Master (1997–99) (fictional biography in three volumes) William Sterndale Bennett
* Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Starwood Burney) Hector Berlioz
* Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991)
* Jude Morgan: Symphony (2006)
* Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Florimond Anastasa) Lord Berners
* Nancy Mitford: The Pursuit of Love (1945) (as Lord Merlin)
* Osbert Sitwell: 'The Love Bird' from Dumb Animal and Other Stories (1930) (as Sir Robert Mainwroth) Hildegard of Bingen
* Mary Sharratt: Illuminations (2012) Mario Braggiotti
* F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is The Night (1934) (as Tommy Barban) Benjamin Britten
* Ian McEwan: Amsterdam (1998) (Clive Linley, correspondencies with Britten) Thomas Busby
* George Borrow: Lavengro (1851) (as editor of the "Universal Review") Frédéric Chopin
* George Sand: Lucrezia Floriani (1846)
* Nell Stevens: Briefly, a Delicious Life (2022) Harriet Cohen
* William Gerhardie: Pending Heaven (1930) (as Helen Sapphire)
* D H Lawrence: Kangeroo (1923) (as Harriet)
* Rebecca West: Harriet Hume (1929) Michael Costa
* Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as St Michel) Noël Coward
* Charles Brackett: Entirely Surrounded (1934) (as Nick Farraday)
* Beverley Nichols: Death to Slow Music (as Nigel Fleet)
* David Pownall: Facade (radio play, 2002) Christian Darnton
* Nigel Balchin: Darkness Falls From the Air (1942) (as the poet Stephen Ryle) Claude Debussy
* Pierre La Mure: Clair de lune (1962)
* Marcel Proust: À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27) (aspects of Vinteuil, see also Franck and Saint-Saëns) Frederick Delius
* C F Keary: The Journalist (1898) (as Sophus Jonsen) Edward J Dent
* E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) (as Philip Herriton) Arnold Dolmetsch
* George Moore: Evelyn Innes (1898) (as the father of Evelyn) Edward Elgar
* Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991)
* James Hamilton-Paterson: Gerontius (1989)
* David Pownall: Elgar’s Rondo (1993)
* David Pownall: Elgar’s Third (1994) César Franck
* Marcel Proust: À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27) (aspects of Vinteuil, see also Debussy and Saint-Saëns) George Gershwin
* Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991)
* Mitchell James Kaplan. Rhapsody (2021)
* George Kaufman and Moss Hart: Merrily We Roll Along (1934) (as Sam Frankl) Carlo Gesualdo
* David Pownall: Music to Murder By (1976) Jimmy Glover
* George Moore: A Mummer's Wife (1885) (as Montgomery) Glenn Gould
* Christopher Miller: Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects: A Novel in Liner Notes (2004) Cecil Gray
* H.D.: Bid Me to Live (1960) (as Vane)
* Aldous Huxley: Antic Hay (1923) (as the critic Mercaptan)
* D.H.Lawrence: Aaron's Rod (1922) (as Cyril Scott)
* D.H.Lawrence: Kangaroo (1923) (as James Sharpe)
* Anthony Powell: Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (Maclintick and Gossege as a composite) George Frideric Handel
* Nick Drake: All the Angels: Handel and the First Messiah (2015) Josef Matthias Hauer
* Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game (1943) (as model for Joculator Basiliensis ("the player from Basel").
* ': Sonnenmelodie (1923)
* Franz Werfel: (1924) (as Matthias Fischboeck) Charles Edward Horsley
* Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Charles Auchester) John Pyke Hullah
* Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Lenhart Davy) Halfdan Jebe
* C F Keary: The Journalist (1898) (as Hauch) Maurice Jacobson
* Stevie Smith: Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) (as Herman) Joseph Joachim
* Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Charles Auchester) Aram Khachaturian
* David Pownall: Master Class (1982) Constant Lambert
* Anthony Powell: Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (as Moreland)
* David Pownall: Facade (radio play, 2002) Henry Lawes
* Robert Graves: Wife to Mr Milton (1942) Franz Liszt
* Daniel Stern: Nélida (1846)
* Susanne Dunlap: Liszt's Kiss (2007)
* George Eliot: Daniel Deronda (1876) (aspects of Julius Klesmer, see also Rubenstein) Elisabeth Lutyens
* Henry Reed: The Private Life of Hilda Tablet (1954) (as Tablet) Alma Mahler
* Max Phillips: The Artist’s Wife (2001)
* Mary Sharratt: Ecstasy (2018) Gustav Mahler
* Ronald Harwood: Mahler’s Conversion (2001)
* Thomas Mann: Death in Venice (aspects of the author Aschenbach)
* Stefan Zweig: The Return of Gustav Mahler (1915), semi-fictional essay Fanny Mendelssohn
* Peter Härtling: Liebste Fenchel (2011)
* Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Maria Cerinthea) Felix Mendelssohn
* Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991)
* Pierre La Mure: Beyond Desire (1955)
* Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Seraphael) Noel Mewton-Wood
* Sonia Orchard: The Virtuosso (2009) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
* Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991)
* Stephanie Cowell: Marrying Mozart (2004)
* Alexander Pushkin: Mozart and Salieri (1830)
* Peter Shaffer: Amadeus (1979) Hubert Parry
* George Bernard Shaw: Love Among the Artists (1881) (as Owen Jack) Helen Perkin
* Carl Ginsburg: Medicine Journeys: Ten Stories (Center Press, 1983) (as Mrs Todd Ashby) Sergei Prokofiev
* Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991)
* David Pownall: Master Class (1982) Maurice Ravel
* Arnold Bennett: The Lion's Share (1916) {as Roussel) Gioachino Rossini
* Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991) Anton Rubinstein
* George Eliot: Daniel Deronda (1876) (aspects of Julius Klesmer, see also Liszt) Camille Saint-Saëns
* Marcel Proust: À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27) (aspects of Vinteuil, see also Debussy and Franck) Antonio Salieri
* Alexander Pushkin: Mozart and Salieri (1830)
* Peter Shaffer: Amadeus (1979) Godfrey Sampson
* Edmund Crispen: Holy Disorders (1945) (as Geoffrey Vintner) Erik Satie
* Caitlin Horrocks: Vexations (2019) Arnold Schoenberg
* Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus (1947) (aspects of Adrian Leverkühn, see also Wolf) Franz Schubert
* Peter Härtling: Schubert: A Novel (1995)
* Gaëlle Josse: Un été à quatre mains Clara Schumann
* Janice Galloway: Clara (2004)
* J. D. Landis: Longing (2000) Robert Schumann
* Jessica Duchen: Ghost Variations (2016)
* Peter Härtling: Schumanns Schatten (1996) Dmitri Shostakovich
* Julian Barnes: The Noise of Time (2016)
* David Pownall: Master Class (1982)
* Sarah Quigley: The Conductor (2012)
* William T. Vollmann: Europe Central (2005) Jean Sibelius
* Simon Boswell: The Seven Symphonies: A Finnish Murder Mystery (2005)
* Caroline J Sinclair: My Music, My Drinking & Me (2015) (fictionalised memoir) Ethel Smyth
* E. F. Benson: Dodo (1893) (as Edith Stains) Kaikhosru Sorabji
* Christopher Miller: Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects: A Novel in Liner Notes (2004) Barbara Strozzi
* Russell Hoban. My Tango with Barbara Strozzi (2007) ((as modern day Bertha Strunk) Kay Swift
* Mitchell James Kaplan. Rhapsody (2021) Antonio Vivaldi
* Barbara Quick: Vivaldi's Virgins (2007) William Walton
* Lord Berners: Count Omega (1941) (as Emmanuel Smith)
* David Pownall: Facade (radio play, 2002) Richard Wagner
* Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991) Peter Warlock
* Frank Baker: The Birds (1936) (as Paul Weaver)
* Ralph Bates: Dead End of the Sky (1937) (as Robert Durand)
* Robertson Davies: A Mixture of Frailties (1958) (as Giles Revelstoke)
* Aldous Huxley: Antic Hay (1923) (as Coleman)
* D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love (1921) (as Julius Halliday)
* Anthony Powell: Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960) (aspects of Maclintick)
* David Pownall: Music to Murder By (1976)
* Jean Rhys: Till September Petronella (short story, 1930s) (as Julian Oakes)
* Osbert Sitwell: Those Were the Days (1938) (as Roy Hartle) Hugo Wolf
* Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus (1947) (aspects of Adrian Leverkühn, see also Schoenberg) Carl Friedrich Zelter
* Elizabeth Sara Sheppard: Charles Auchester (1853) (as Aronach) (en)
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