Roger Curtis wrote:

>...  Can anyone else recommend any other novels with a classical music
>background?

Christopher Miller:
Simon Silber - Works for Solo Piano

A fictitious biography (taking the form of liner notes) of a quite
peculiar composer-pianist, supposedly written by a not less peculiar
man of letters.  Some readers might accuse the book of rehashing old
postmodernist tricks, but on the whole I found it quite engaging.

Peter