Composers in Literature

[Chew G]

Another couple of important ones that occur to me:
 
Jean Paul [Richter], Hesperus [esp the episode with Stamitz and the garden concert]
Stanislas Przybyszewski and his take on Chopin, both in the essays (e.g. "Chopin and Nietzsche") and in his "Totenmesse" and "De profundis"
Which reminds me that Richard Dehmel refers to Przybyszewski and Chopin in his "Verwandlung der Venus"
And also reminds me of Nietzsche, Der Fall Wagner etc (do things like that count?)
 
The theme of the demon violinist/composer via Paganini and, earlier, Tartini must be widespread, though at the moment I can only think of pieces of music (Casella's Paganiniana and Dallapiccola's Tartiniana)
 
And in a completely different vein, the satirical, comic German musical novels of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, which have composers wandering through the countryside in a fairly irresponsible and sometimes amusing way -- several by Johann Beer (1655-1700), such as Der abentheuerliche, wunderbare und unerhoerte Ritter Hopffensack (1678),and a couple by Wolfgang Caspar Printz (1641-1717),, such as his Phrynis Mitilenaeus oder Satyrischer Componist (1696).  Printz wrote a "refutation" of his own novel and has some entertaining details about style, distinguishing (in descending order of sophistication) courtly style, bourgeois style, peasant style and "Siberian" style... (He lived in what is now Poland, and it's been argued, perhaps plausibly, that he draws on real Polish folk music of the period for his descriptions)
 
Geoff
 
 
 Geoffrey Chew
 Institute of Musicology, Masaryk University, Brno
 chewg at seznam.cz
 
 Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London
 g.chew at rhul.ac.uk

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Dear Janneke,
E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Kreisleriana";


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