Mozart in popular culture

The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) led a life that was dramatic in many respects, including his career as a child prodigy, his struggles to achieve personal independence and establish a career, his brushes with financial disaster, and his death in the course of attempting to complete his Requiem. Authors of fictional works have found his life a compelling source of raw material. Such works have included novels, plays, operas, and films. The listing below include only some prominent items from among thousands. Fiction * Don Juan in 1812, by E. T. A. Hoffmann. Hoffmann also played an important role in establish the critical reputation of Mozart’s music. *Eduard Mörike. Mozart’s Journey to Prague (1856). * Mozart appears in Hermann Hesse’s novels Der Steppenwolf and Die Morgenlandfahrt. * In 1968, David Weiss published Sacred and profane: a novel of the life and times of Mozart, a narrative account on the composer’s life drawing heavily on the documented historical record, but with invented conversations and other details. * Mozart appears as a key character in the 1985 cyberpunk story “Mozart in Mirrorshades” by Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner, available in the antholog