Music into Fiction: Composers Writing, Compositions Imitated

Illuminates unexplored dimensions of the music—literature relationship and the sometimes unrecognized talents of certain famous writers and composers.


This book deals with three aspects that have been neglected in the burgeoning field of music and literature. The "First Movement" of the book considers writers from German Romanticism to the present who, like Robert Schumann, first saw themselves as writers before they turned to composition, or, like E. T. A. Hoffmann and Anthony Burgess, soug...