Mozart and The Wolf Gang

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
  • Byrne
Short story collections
  • The Devil's Mode
Poetry
  • Moses: A Narrative
  • Revolutionary Sonnets
Essays
  • An Essay on Censorship
  • Homage to Qwert Yuiop
  • One Man's Chorus
Critical works
  • Shakespeare
  • Joysprick
  • Ninety-Nine Novels
  • A Mouthful of Air
Operettas
  • Blooms of Dublin
Symphonies
  • Sinfoni Melayu
Autobiography
  • Little Wilson and Big God
  • You've Had Your Time

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