Mozart and the Wolf Gang

Published in the U.K. under this title, in the U.S. it was published as On Mozart: A Paean for Wolfgang, Being a Celestial Colloquy, an Opera Libretto, a Film Script, a Schizophrenic Dialogue, a Bewildered Rumination.

[1] Among other things, it attempts to fictionalize Mozart's Symphony No.

[2] This is one of numerous Burgess books in which music figures prominently, others being A Vision of Battlements; The Worm and the Ring; The Malayan Trilogy; A Clockwork Orange, especially for its use of Beethoven's Symphony No.

3; The End of the World News; Any Old Iron; The Devil's Mode and Other Stories; The Pianoplayers, about the music hall era; and Byrne: A Novel.

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.