Author and musician …

… Anthony Burgess: The Devil Prefers Mozart. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Burgess often said that he thought of himself as a musician who happened to be a novelist. The Devil Prefers Mozart allows us to see the full range of his musical interests, both as a critic and as a composer. As you would expect from Burgess, these essays are written with the energy and panache that we associate with the best of his fiction