Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this episode, Andrew Biswell explores Anthony Burgess’s new collection of essays on music, The Devil Prefers Mozart, with editor Paul Phillips.
The Devil Prefers Mozart is the first collection of Anthony Burgess’s essays on music and musicians. This wide-ranging anthology covers classical, modern and operatic works, as well as jazz, pop, heavy metal and punk. This episode of the podcast discusses the versatility of Burgess’s writing on music, the different sorts of essays in the new collection and what Burgess really thought of the work of the Beatles.
Paul Phillips is the Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies and Associate Professor of Music at Stanford University, and author A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess, the definitive study of Burgess’s music and its relationship to his writing. Paul has contributed essays to six books on Burgess, including the Norton Critical Edition of A Clockwork Orange, and is an Honorary Patron of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and its Music Advisor.
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LINKS
The Devil Prefers Mozart: On Music and Musicians by Anthony Burgess, edited by Paul Phillips at Carcanet: carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781800173088
The Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess by Paul Phillips (affiliate link): blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/A-Clockwork-Counterpoint-The-Music-and-Literature-of-Anthony-Burgess-by-Phillips-Paul-Jr/9780719072055?a_aid=BurgessFoundation
International Anthony Burgess Foundation: anthonyburgess.org
Anthony Burgess News, our free weekly Substack newsletter: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com
In this episode, Andrew Biswell explores Anthony Burgess’s new collection of essays on music, The Devil Prefers Mozart, with editor Paul Phillips.
The Devil Prefers Mozart is the first collection of Anthony Burgess’s essays on music and musicians. This wide-ranging anthology covers classical, modern and operatic works, as well as jazz, pop, heavy metal and punk. This episode of the podcast discusses the versatility of Burgess’s writing on music, the different sorts of essays in the new collection and what Burgess really thought of the work of the Beatles.
Paul Phillips is the Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies and Associate Professor of Music at Stanford University, and author A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess, the definitive study of Burgess’s music and its relationship to his writing. Paul has contributed essays to six books on Burgess, including the Norton Critical Edition of A Clockwork Orange, and is an Honorary Patron of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and its Music Advisor.
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LINKS
The Devil Prefers Mozart: On Music and Musicians by Anthony Burgess, edited by Paul Phillips at Carcanet: carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781800173088
The Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess by Paul Phillips (affiliate link): blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/A-Clockwork-Counterpoint-The-Music-and-Literature-of-Anthony-Burgess-by-Phillips-Paul-Jr/9780719072055?a_aid=BurgessFoundation
International Anthony Burgess Foundation: anthonyburgess.org
Anthony Burgess News, our free weekly Substack newsletter: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com
