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On Mozart: A Paean for Wolfgang, Being a Celestial Colloquy, an Opera Libretto, a Film Script, a Schizophrenic Dialogue, a Bewildered Rumination, a Stendhalian Transcription, and a Heartfelt Homage upon the Bicentenary of the Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a 1991 literary homage by Anthony Burgess to commemorate the bicentennial of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's death.

This paean opens with a prologue called a celestal colloquy by the author, but it is an imaginary dialogue among Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Arthur Bliss, and Wagner. This introduction is followed by the first act of an opera in which Mozart argues with a majordomo and a secretary appointed to Prince Archbishop Hyeronymus Colleredo. The composer also has time to flirt with Aloysa Weber and with her soon-to-be wife, Constanze. The act finishes with a direct verbal confrontation between Mozart and Colleredo. The latter commands his majordomo to kick Mozart out, but boldly he kicks him first.

In the first interval another imaginary dialogue takes place. Now the speakers are Rossini, Stendhal and Berlioz.

This book is a supreme effort to place Mozart's music as a fostering guide into a more sympathetic future for humanity.