List of composers in literature

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This list includes fictional representations of real (named) composers and musicians, and 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

Arnold Bax

Ludwig van Beethoven

Bix Beiderbecke

William Sterndale Bennett

Hector Berlioz

Lord Berners

Hildegard of Bingen

Mario Braggiotti

Benjamin Britten

Thomas Busby

Frédéric Chopin

Harriet Cohen

Michael Costa

Noël Coward

Christian Darnton

Claude Debussy

Frederick Delius

Edward J Dent

Delia Derbyshire

Arnold Dolmetsch

Edward Elgar

César Franck

George Gershwin

Carlo Gesualdo

Jimmy Glover

Eugene Aynsley Goossens

Glenn Gould

Cecil Gray

Jan Hambourg

George Frideric Handel

Josef Matthias Hauer

Charles Edward Horsley

John Pyke Hullah

Halfdan Jebe

Maurice Jacobson

Joseph Joachim

Aram Khachaturian

Constant Lambert

Henry Lawes

Madame Levinskaya

Franz Liszt

Elisabeth Lutyens

Alma Mahler

Gustav Mahler

Florence Ashton Marshall (and her sister, the clarinettist Frances Marshall)

Fanny Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn

Noel Mewton-Wood

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Hubert Parry

Helen Perkin

Sergei Prokofiev

Maurice Ravel

Gioachino Rossini

Harold Rubens

Anton Rubinstein

Camille Saint-Saëns

Antonio Salieri

Godfrey Sampson

Erik Satie

Arnold Schoenberg

Franz Schubert

Clara Schumann

Robert Schumann

Dmitri Shostakovich

Jean Sibelius

Ethel Smyth

Kaikhosru Sorabji

Barbara Strozzi

Arthur Sullivan

Kay Swift

Antonio Vivaldi

William Walton

Richard Wagner

Peter Warlock

Hugo Wolf

Carl Friedrich Zelter

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