Literary Art
Drama, poetry, novels, short stories…
Works
Chess and music are often related with other arts. Here you have some examples.
Literary Art
| Rank | Work | Year | Genre | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,00 | ¡Music Hall! | 2004 | Novel (music) | Gaetan Soucy | The life of an hungrian inmigrant in the musical scene of New York in 50's decade |
| 2,00 | A chess player | 2009 | Novel (chess) | Julio Castedo | Diego Padilla was beginning to reap success in chess, but the ravages of the civil war and the misery of the postwar period made him go into exile in France. It will have to start again overcoming the ravages of competition and love. |
| 3,00 | A game at chess | 1997 | Novel (chess) | Thomas Middleton | Through a great metaphor related to the competitive world of chess, A Game at Chess presents a scandalous socio-political history as a satire on the relations of the government with the big businessmen in contemporary politics. |
| 4,00 | A Note of Madness | 2007 | Novel (music) | Tabitha Suzuma | Flynn is one of the best piano students of the Royal College of Music. He performs wonderful performances in different concerts and has an active social life with great friends, so he does not understand why he feels his life is shattered. The pressure for the next concert and the worries about his family and friends make his feeling worse. |
| 5,00 | A Russian passion (Una pasión rusa) | 2015 | Novel (music) | Reyes Monforte | As a novel, it tells the story of the Spanish singer Lina Codina, muse and wife of Sergei Prokofiev and how her life went from the luxuries of a high class life to being accused by the Stalinist regime and taken to a concentration camp. |
| 6,00 | A violin for Elijah | 2017 | Novel (music) | V. S. Paterson | Young Elijah Grossman is on his way to becoming a famous violinist when he and his father are taken prisoner by the Nazis. Out of the chaos and the cruelty, an orchestra forms and alliances develop, transforming relationships between prisoners and captors. |
| 7,00 | A Visit from the Goon Squad | 2010 | Novel (music) | Jennifer Egan | Sasha is a complicated woman in her mid-thirties who tries to overcome her compulsion to steal. Bennie Salazar is an ex-punk rocker and record executive, divorced, struggling to get ahead with his nine-year-old son. What they do not know is that their very different lives are going to connect in a strange way. |
| 8,00 | Accordion crimes | 1997 | Novel (music) | Annie Proulx | It tells the experience of immigrants in the United States through the eyes of the descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Africans, Scottish Irish, French Canadians and many others, all linked by music. |
| 9,00 | Acústica para todos, incluídos los músicos | 2000 | Novel (music) | José Manuel Fernández Gutierrez. Miguel Ballestín Pascual | Through a series of fantastic stories in which witches, fairies, gnomes and other characters appear, the concepts of acoustics are explained in a language suitable for all audiences. |
| 10,00 | Air Fugue (Aire de fuga) | 2009 | Novel (music) | Emilio Garrido | A romantic musician devastated by dissatisfaction decides to go looking for the woman he has always loved, even though he only has a picture of her from when she was little. Guided by the notes of Bach's compositions, he will travel through different countries where he will find much more than love. |
| 11,00 | Ajedrez para un detective novato | 2017 | Novel (chess) | Juan Soto Ivars | Marcos Lapiedra, a womanizing detective, Spanish and chess fan, chooses a detective novel writer as apprentice and successor. |
| 12,00 | An Equal Music | 1999 | Novel (music) | Vikram Seth | Michael Holme is a violinist, member of the successful Maggiore Quartet. However, for a long time he has been obsessed by the memories of the pianist who loved and left ten years ago, Julia McNicholl. Now Julia, married and the mother of a small child, unexpectedly re-enters her life and the romance rekindles. |
| 13,00 | Anand | 2016 | Book (chess) | Zenon Franco | Zenón Franco examines in detail Anand's chess career so far. |
| 14,00 | Aprendiz de Kung-Fu | 2013 | Novel (music) | Francisco Nixon | The music experiences of Nixon, a Indie musician from 90's |
| 15,00 | At attack | 2015 | Book (chess) | Mikhail Tal, Iakov Damsky | Long and exciting story of the life of the singular chess player Mikhail Tal, traveled through a dialogue between himself and the journalist who constantly plays the role of confessor. |
| 16,00 | At the beginning, the night was music | 2011 | Novel (music) | Alissa Walser | On several occasions, the best doctors of the court have tried to cure the condition of the sight suffered by the pianist Maria Teresa without success. Doctor Mesmer manages to recover his sight for a while, but Maria Teresa gradually loses his talent, so Mesmer decides to go into exile in France, but years later he will meet Maria Teresa again at a concert in Paris |
| 17,00 | Audrey, Wait! | 2008 | Novel (music) | Robin Benway | The life of Audrey Cuttler has not been the same since she heard the song, "Audrey, wait!" on the radio. This song composed by his ex-boyfriend, speaks of his separation. The song becomes famous, and even though she just wants to have a normal life, the paparazzi do not leave her alone, everyone talks about her, and the Internet is documenting each of her movements! |
| 18,00 | Bel Canto | 2001 | Novel (music) | Ann Patchett | A well-known soprano sings at a birthday party of a Japanese businessman, when a band of terrorists enters the vice presidential mansion to kidnap the president. The plan goes wrong and the terrorists are forced to negotiate while 58 hostages of different nationalities wait for months without knowing their fate. The only option to spend the days is through music, which becomes the common language. |
| 19,00 | Bellweather Rhapsody | 2014 | Novel (music) | Kate Racculia | Fifteen years ago, a murder-suicide in room 712 shook the great hotel Bellweather and the young maid of honor who witnessed it, Minnie Graves. Now hundreds of high school musicians have gathered at the Bellweather for the annual state festival; Minnie has returned to face her demons; and a snow storm threatens to trap everyone inside. |
| 20,00 | Birth of the Chess Queen: A History | 2005 | Book (chess) | Marilyn Yalom | History of one of the most important pieces in the game of chess: the queen |
| 21,00 | Bonus track: High fidelity | Novel (music) | Nick Hornby | Rob Fleming is the owner of an antique record store in London. On the verge of turning 36, he loses his partner and his business is on the verge of bankruptcy. Rob will have to learn from his mistakes and turn his life around if he wants to move forward, but the past sometimes comes back strongly. | |
| 22,00 | Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw | 1998 | Novel (chess) | Thomas Glavinic | Fiction story of a famous match of the World Chess Championship of 1910 between Carl Schlechter and the current champion Emanuel Lasker |
| 23,00 | Cemitério de Pianos | 2006 | Novel (music) | José Luís Peixoto | The life of a family that works in a piano workshop |
| 24,00 | Checkmate at chess city | 2000 | Novel (chess) | Piers Harper | Chess City has been captured! The king and queen are missing, and it's up to the readers to rescue them. As children learn how each piece of chess moves, their task is to maneuver strategically knights, pawns, bishops and towers through labyrinths full of hungry wolves, dangerous swamp monsters and poisonous spiders. |
| 25,00 | Chess | 2005 | Novel (chess) | Rubén Gallego | Rubén and Misha are two sick friends who meet at an orphanage in the Soviet Union. The struggle for survival and for having a future makes them join forces and face their destiny. |
| 26,00 | Chess camps | 2016 | Novel (chess) | Mario Satz | Portrait of people of different conditions, from peasants to nobles, whose destinies are intertwined like the chess pieces on the board. |
| 27,00 | Chess crimes | 2012 | Novel (chess) | David J. Skinner | The police study four different and apparently unrelated crimes until one of the inspectors finds the clue that relates them: in each murder there is a piece of chess. |
| 28,00 | Chess for Zebras | 2005 | Book (chess & more) | Jonathan Rowson | vital issues for the chess player |
| 29,00 | Clara | 2002 | Novel (music) | Janice Galloway | This novel gives voice to Clara Wieck Schumann, one of the most celebrated pianists of the 19th century, remembered for her marriage to Robert Schumann. Wrapped in alternating layers of music and silence, Schumann's union was anything but a lullaby, marked by his brave struggle for self-expression and his tortuous descent into madness. |
| 30,00 | Clayton Byrd Goes Underground | 2017 | Novel (music) | Rita Williams-Garcia | Clayton feels more alive when he is with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the Bluesmen band. When he can join the band, his grandfather dies and his mother forbids him to play blues. Clayton flees from his house in search of the Bluesmen, but in the trip discovers some things that surprise him. |
| 31,00 | Disturbance of the Inner Ear | 2002 | Novel (music) | Joyce Hackett, Sue Canavan | Isabel, a former cello prodigy and daughter of a Holocaust survivor, falls in love with Giulio, an Italian Gigolo. Together they're going to live a story in which music takes on great importance. |
| 32,00 | Don Sandalio, jugador de ajedrez (Don Sandalio, chess player) | 1930 | Novel (chess) | Miguel de Unamuno | It shows the philosophical questions and concerns that a chess player becomes at the end of his life. |
| 33,00 | Echo | 2015 | Novel (music) | Pam Muñoz Ryan | Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself intertwined in a disconcerting search that involves a prophecy, a promise and a harmonica. |
| 34,00 | El chico que imitaba a Roberto Carlos | 1996 | Novel (music) | Martín Casariego Córdoba | The hard life of a teenager from the suburban periphery who wants to be a singer |
| 35,00 | El elefante de marfil | 2010 | Novel (Chess) | Nerea Riesco | Intrigue, love, betrayal, revenge, conspiracies, religion, that revolve around chess in this novel set in eighteenth-century Seville |
| 36,00 | El jugador de ajedrez | 2014 | Novel (chess) | Eduardo Scala | The large experience of chessgamer in 64 games |
| 37,00 | El tango de la guardia vieja | 2012 | Novel (Chess and music) | Arturo Pérez Reverte | Tremendous historical novel in which the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War are intermingled between a couple of lovers who will live constant changes in a 40-year-old romance in which chess, music and dance will be the crucial pieces of the novel . |
| 38,00 | Eleanor & Park | 2013 | Novel (music) | Rainbow Rowell | Two 16-year-olds, Eleanor and Park, fall in love over the course of a school year. Together they live their first love surrounded by the music created by Park and sharing the rebellion of doing the wrong thing. |
| 39,00 | End Game | 1994 | Novel (chess) | Dev Stryker | The great city of Manhattan becomes a giant chess board through a very tense game that puts the destiny of the world in two players. |
| 40,00 | Endgame (Fin de partie) | 1957 | Novel (chess) | Samuel Beckett | Inspired by the game of chess, it tells the story of a blind master and his servant who can not sit who depend on each other despite their mutual hatred. Hamm's resistance to accept is comparable to that of the amateur player to admit a defeat. |
| 41,00 | Endgame: Duchamp, chess and the Avant-Garde | 2016 | Book (chess and art) | Variuos authors | Chess vision of the artist Marcell Duchamp |
| 42,00 | Even dead man play chess | 2009 | Novel (chess) | Michael Weitz | Walter Kelly, one of the students of chess teacher Ray Gordon, is found dead in his shop. The police and his family leave him as an accident, but Ray stumbles over the murky world of methamphetamine, the worst drug epidemic of our time. |
| 43,00 | Fargo Rock City | 2002 | Novel (music) | Chuck Klosterman | As a novel, this book tells the rise and fall of heavy metal and some of the most popular groups of the 80s and 90s |
| 44,00 | Fish in a tree | 2015 | Novel (chess) | Linda Mullaly Hunt | Ally is a girl with dyslexia who insists on hiding it in her school creating intelligent methods. Despite his fear of asking for help, Mr. Daniels is able to see Ally's potential creativity. Through chess, Ally understands that it is not necessary to be ashamed of oneself and that each person has good and bad things that each one of us must accept. |
| 45,00 | Five Flavors of Dumb | 2010 | Novel (music) | Antony John | Piper has a month to give the rock band Dumb a pay concert. If she gets it, she will become the director of the band and get her share of the profits. |
| 46,00 | Galaxy chess | 2016 | Novel (chess) | Gloria Adams | Science fiction |
| 47,00 | Garvey's Choice | 2016 | Novel (music) | Nikki Grimes | Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be an athlete, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction and reading. Garvey is kind, funny, intelligent, faithful friend, but he feels unsuccessful, he is overweight and he is alone. When his only friend encourages him to join the school choir, Garvey's life changes. The choir finds a new soloist in Garvey, and Garvey finds a way to accept himself, and a way to get to his father. |
| 48,00 | Gentlemen and Players | 2006 | Novel (chess) | Joanne Harris | Roy Straitley tries to avoid the destruction of St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys |
| 49,00 | Grandmaster: A Novel | 2015 | Novel (chess) | David Klass | Daniel discovers that his father was a great chess player who had to leave the competitions for his own good, but he is forced to confront an old opponent and the demons of the past return to torment him |
| 50,00 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | 1997 | Novel (chess) | J. K. Rowling | At the end of the novel the protagonists must play a game of magical chess that includes them as human pieces within the game. |
| 51,00 | His Secret Little Wife | 2006 | Novel (music) | Fredrica Wagman | It tells the story of a young and brilliant cellist and her sexual relationship with the famous composer and conductor who created her. In this way, the young woman navigates between her thoughts and emotions and is caught in the middle of a relationship beyond her own comprehension. |
| 52,00 | Horrorscape | 2013 | Novel (chess) | Nenia Campbell | Val receives a business card from a very dangerous child who wants to play with her. It is a game without rules, logic or consequence, and it will stop at nothing to claim it as its own, even if it means destroying them both. |
| 53,00 | How life imitate chess | 2008 | Novel (chess) | Garry Kasparov | Manual of strategies for life using chess as parallelism |
| 54,00 | How to build a girl | 2014 | Novel (music) | Caitlin Moran | Johanna Morrigan builds a character of herself; Dolly Wilde, an uninhibited gothic girl who tries to save her family from poverty. With a wild lifestyle, she get a job as a rock music journalist. In this way, she begins to write pornographic letters with rock stars and has all kinds of sexual relations with them to gut all the secrets of famous bands in newspaper reviews. |
| 55,00 | Il movimient del caballo (The movement of horse) | 2004 | Novel (Chess) | Andrea Camilleri | It treats the story of an attempt to defraud the state in nineteenth-century Sicily. A Sicilian researcher goes after them and surprises them thanks to the astuteness of the researcher who has used chess to anticipate events. |
| 56,00 | Juliet, Naked | 2009 | Novel (music) | Nick Hornby | It tells the story of a lonely musician who begins a correspondence relationship with an abandoned woman while working on the publication of an acoustic album |
| 57,00 | Kill your friends | 2008 | Novel (music) | John Niven | It tells a story of the music industry as a ruthless and funny satire, showing the inner part where greed and excess is normal in the Britpop era. |
| 58,00 | La clave de la victoria | 2016 | Book (chess) | Vladimir Tukmakov | Chess manual in the computer age |
| 59,00 | La fugue de Bach | 2007 | Novel (music) | Regine Boutegege | The dismayed public learns that the first star of the concert has disappeared at the moment when the curtain rises. Commissar Morand has to unveil the threads of this plot, guided by the disturbing notes of a Bach fugue. |
| 60,00 | La joueuse d'échecs | 2017 | Novel (chess) | Bertina Henrichs | Eleni leads a monotonous life as a maid in Naxos, and dreams of changing her life. After watching a game of chess, she decides to secretly learn from her husband with an old teacher. Chess allows her to abstract from everyday life while providing other perspectives and enriching her vocabulary. Things change when she assimilates the queen's power and freedom of movement that makes her see things differently. |
| 61,00 | La Música de las Esferas (En Clave de Sol) | 2014 | Novel (music) | Luis F. F. Simón | Music is a main theme, with characters as Pythagoras, Mozart, Beethoven and much more. |
| 62,00 | La torre herida por el rayo (The Tower Struck by Lightning) | 1982 | Novel (chess) | Fernando Arrabal | Two great chess players face off in a game in which their fears, love and political intrigues are intermingled |
| 63,00 | Las transversalidades del ajedrez | 2016 | Book (chess & more) | Joaquín Fernández Amigo | The relationship between chess and the teaching of school subjects |
| 64,00 | Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey | 2014 | Novel (music) | Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton | Since the initial development of recorded and broadcast sound, DJs have been shaping the way we listen to music and the recording industry. |
| 65,00 | Libro de los juegos (Book of Games) | 1283 | Book (chess & other games) | Alfonso X of Castile (as patron) | Also known as Libro da axedrez, dados e tablas. Compilation and description of old board games such as chess, alquerque, dice, backgammon, etc... It is one of the most important documents for the investigation of board games. |
| 66,00 | Lisa: A Chess Novel | 2013 | Novel (chess) | Jesse Kraai | Lisa finds her chess teacher Igor Ivanov. With his lessons, He taught her how to play and to live life in a different way |
| 67,00 | Lord of chaos | 1998 | Novel (music) | Michael Moynihan. Diorik Soderlind | A harrowing, and brilliantly story about the account of the nightmarish excesses of the mid-90s black metal scene in Norway. |
| 68,00 | Lost In Music: A Pop Odyssey | 1996 | Novel (music) | Giles Smith | From the point of view of a young person passionate about pop music, this book tries to grow with music, to listen to it, buy it, love it and try to play in public for money. |
| 69,00 | Love music | 2015 | Novel (music) | Zarcort and Itwongameplay | Compilation of music lyrics and its story. The authors are two Youtubers. |
| 70,00 | Love will make you immortal (El amor te hará inmortal) | 2016 | Novel (music) | Ramón Gener | The great Italian conductor Riccardo Muti needs to study the scores to interpret for long periods of time in order to extract the feelings buried in the paper and transfer them to the audience through an interpretation that no one else is capable of achieving. |
| 71,00 | L'Ultima Mossa (The Last Move) | 2016 | Novel (chess/music) | Alberto Ripa and Giorgio Ripa | The investigation of a murder case in which chess will be the main track |
| 72,00 | Melodia fatalle | 2013 | Novel (music and chess) | Alberto Ripa and Giorgio Ripa | The investigation of a murder case in which music and chess are intermingled |
| 73,00 | Mistery train | 1975 | Novel (music) | Greil Marcus | Based on the songs of six musicians and capital bands, this novel enlarges the world of rock and translates it into a larger musical genre. |
| 74,00 | Morphy play to play | 2018 | Book (chess) | Anonymous | The great master Zenón Franco examines in detail the chess style of Morphy, selects and studies his favorite games of Morphy, and demonstrates how we can all improve our chess. |
| 75,00 | Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life | 2009 | Novel (music) | Winton Marsalis | In this inspiring story, Marsalis exposes how to get to understand jazz and the blues message making parallels with aspects of daily life, making the reader understand in a simple way how to enjoy music and aspects of life that, sometimes, go unnoticed. |
| 76,00 | Mozart | 1995 | Novel (music) | Maynard Solomon | A different Mozart's biography of our time |
| 77,00 | Mozart's last aria | 2011 | Novel (music) | Matt Rees | Austria, eighteenth century. Mozart's sister, Nannerl, encounters a world of ambition, conspiracy and immortal music as she tries to uncover the truth about her brother's suspicious death. |
| 78,00 | Music & Silence | 1999 | Novel (music) | Rose Tremain | Denmark, seventeenth century. Peter Claire is an English lutenist summoned to join the royal orchestra of King Christian IV who falls madly in love with the companion of Queen Kirsten, the adulterous wife of the king. The young musician is divided between loyalties and caught in the discontent of the royal court. |
| 79,00 | Music lovers | 2016 | Novel (music) | Inés Diaz Arriero | Romantic story in which music will play an important role |
| 80,00 | Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain | 2007 | Novel (music) | Oliver Sacks | After surviving lightning, a man wishes to become a forty-two-year-old pianist. A whole group of children with Williams syndrome are hypermusical from birth. A group of people any music sounds like the rattle of pots and pans. A man whose memory covers only seven seconds, less for music. Through these stories, this book explores the place of music in the brain and how it affects the human condition. |
| 81,00 | Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist | 2006 | Novel (music) | Rachel Cohn, David Levithan | Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who has just entered the show of his band. With a new boy. And then, with a kiss, Nick and Norah set out on an adventure with the musical background of New York City. |
| 82,00 | Nocturne for violin | 2016 | Novel (music) | Rose Avalon | During the Barcelona nights of the 19th century, a family of aristocrats hides a secret. An inhuman feeling and the bloody stories of vampires accompany the romantic musical compositions of the violin nocturnes. Not everything is what it seems. |
| 83,00 | Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall | 2009 | Novel (music) | Kazuo Ishiguro | Five interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character. Passion or need determines the place of music in each of these stories. |
| 84,00 | O violin de Rembrant | 2014 | Novel (music) | Jorge Llorca Freire | An image and a violin will test the principles of a master of art history who works in the evening classes at the Academy School Athena. |
| 85,00 | Our Lady of Righteous Rage | 2015 | Novel (music) | Nicole E. Woolaston | Becoming a great guitarist and being a member of a Punk Rock band in New York is the dream of cat Amy Edwards and her friends. But as the group begins to grow, things between them begin to change. The dreams of her childhood have the opportunity to become reality, and Amy and her friends have the opportunity to succeed, but not everyone in Amy's life seems to be on her side. |
| 86,00 | Overture | 2007 | Novel (music) | Yael Goldstein | Natasha Darsky is "the most famous violinist since Paganini" with a great musical talent since childhood developed at Harvard. Daughter of a world-famous art dealer in New York City, Natasha grows up in a world in which artistic achievement has the greatest value. In her life appears Jean Paul, a revolutionary composer for whom she is dedicated to the interpretation and abandons her dream of being a composer. Soon they have a daughter, Alex, who has a great talent for composition that will unite mother and daughter. |
| 87,00 | Paganini's Ghost | 2010 | Novel (music) | Paul Adam | A Parisian art dealer is found dead in his hotel room the day after the concert that is held every two years with the violin of virtuoso performer Paganini. In his wallet there is a fragment of stripped scores. Detective Antonio Guastafeste asks the violin maker Gianni Castiglione to help him, and together they must unravel another mystery that has remained unanswered for more than a century. |
| 88,00 | Pawn to infinity | 1982 | Novel (chess) | Fred Saberhagen | The stories speak of game machines, a chess champion, parallel worlds and a deadly machine that randomly destroys inhabited planets. |
| 89,00 | Playlist for the dead | 2015 | Novel (music) | Michelle Falkoff | Sam's best friend, Hayden, was dead and Sam does not remember anything. All Sam left was a playlist of songs, and a note, saying he took his own life. But what Sam does not know is: Why? |
| 90,00 | Please kill me: The uncensored oral history of Punk | 1996 | Novel (music) | Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain | First oral history of the most nihilistic pop movements from its origins in the eighties until the birth of the corporate rock of the eighties, known as punk. |
| 91,00 | Poetry | - | Poetry (chess) | Eduardo Scala | |
| 92,00 | Poetry | - | Poetry (chess) | Jorge Luis Borges | He is one of the authors with the greatest literary work related to the game of chess |
| 93,00 | Prodigious savant | 2014 | Novel (chess) | J. J. White | Dr. Darold A. Treffert studies the wonderful talents of prodigious sages at the University of Wisconsin, finding in all of them a similarity: they have the Savant syndrome. He soon finds Gavin, a young survivor of an explosion that held him for a month in a coma after a hard brain operation. Gavin has incredible talent for art, music, mathematics and chess, but faces tough internal conflicts that he must overcome. |
| 94,00 | Punk and Whiskers (Our Lady of Righteous Rage) | 2017 | Novel (music) | Nicole E. Woolaston | A collection of short science fiction stories about a group of friends growing up together in New York, they start a band together and later, a business. All the characters are anthropomorphic cats that possess supernatural powers thanks to their musical instruments. |
| 95,00 | Queenmagic, Kingmagic | 1986 | Novel (chess) | Ian Watson | Bellogard and Chorny are in a perpetual war. The fantasy world in which they reside is governed by the strict norms of chess, and each character has its concrete movement marked from the beginning until one of the two kings is killed and the world disappears. |
| 96,00 | Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess | 1993 | Novel (chess) | Fred Waitzkin | A journalist fond of chess recounts three years in the life of his son, chess champion. |
| 97,00 | Sick On You: The Disastrous Story of Britain's Great Lost Punk Band | 2001 | Novel (music) | Howard Hughes | With only one guitar, a frayed copy of Melody Maker and his template for the perfect band, Andrew Matheson and his punk band set out, in 1971, to make musical history. |
| 98,00 | Supergirl Mixtapes | 2012 | Novel (music) | Meagan Brothers | Maria receives her father's consent to travel to New York to visit her artist mother. There he meets the world of rock, with new ideas, new experiences and new people, the freedom she has always wanted. But her life has a dark side and her mother keeps secrets that will make Maria feel the need to decide her loyalty. |
| 99,00 | Swing Changes: Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America | 1994 | Novel (Music) | David W. Stowe | Caricature of the American society through its music, showing the contradictions and tensions of race, politics, women, etc, making a parallelism with Swing's musical aspects. A different perspective that shows that music has great social and cultural power. |
| 100,00 | Telegraph Avenue | 2012 | Novel (music) | Michael Chabon | Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are bandmates and owners of a vinyl store who fear the future of their small business when they announce the opening of a music store. The struggle for the survival of the business will in turn turn into the struggle for the survival of their friendship. |
| 101,00 | The Auschwitz violin | 1997 | Novel (music) | Anglada Maria Ángels | Daniel, a Jew in plans for World War II, survives the hell of Auschwitz thanks to his gift of building a violin for his executioners. |
| 102,00 | The Bells | 2010 | Novel (music) | Richard Harvell | Moses Froben was born in a bell tower at the top of the Swiss Alps, where his mother was the guardian of the bells. As a child he has an extraordinary gift for sound and when his supernatural hearing was discovered, and his power to expose the sins of the church, the young man was expelled. He arrives at the Abbey of San Gall, where he becomes the protege of Ulrich, choirmaster, who, to preserve his voice, decides to castrate him. He thus becomes the famous opera singer The Svizzero, traveling through the best theaters but having to hide his shameful condition of "castratto". |
| 103,00 | The Cellist of Sarajevo | 2008 | Novel (music) | Steven Galloway | In the middle of the siege of the city of Sarajevo, a cellist is in the spotlight of a hidden sniper who wants to kill him. With the help of some citizens who until now he did not know, he is recovering information and investigating why his life is in danger. |
| 104,00 | The chess garden | 1995 | Novel (chess) | Brooks Hansen | Dr. Gustav Uyterhoeven owns a beautiful garden with his wife, but in 1900, he travels to South Africa to work as a war doctor. While working, he sent his wife twelve pieces of cheddar together with twelve letters that described an imaginary land called Antipodes, where chess was the main element of decoration and the garden comes alive to guide the doctor in his fateful and wonderful last adventure. |
| 105,00 | The Chess Machine | 2007 | Novel (chess) | Robert Löhr | In 1770, Wolfgang von Kempelen introduced a chess automaton in Vienna that no one can win, but nobody knows that inside the machine is Tibor, a dwarf with great skills for chess. |
| 106,00 | The Chessmen of Mars | 1921 | Novel (chess) | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Science fiction story in which captives are forced to fight to the death in a popular board game similar to chess that uses people as the pieces of the game |
| 107,00 | The Computer That Said Steal Me | 1983 | Novel (chess) | Elizabeth Levy | A child plans an ingenious plan to steal a chess computer due to lack of money from his parents. |
| 108,00 | The Conductor | 2011 | Novel (music) | Sarah Quigley | In June 1941, Nazi troops marched on Leningrad and surrounded it. Hitler's plan is to bomb, and starve the city to the point of subjection. Most of the cultural elite is evacuated at the beginning of the siege, but Dmitri Shostakovich, the most famous Russian composer, remains to defend his city. At night, he composes a new work: the Leningrad Symphony. |
| 109,00 | The Defense | 1930 | Novel (chess) | Vladimir Nabokov | The discovery of chess is for the protagonist, a refuge against the tribulations of his unhappy adolescence. |
| 110,00 | The devil's violin | 2010 | Novel (music) | Joseph Gelinek | The violinist Ane Larrazabal appears strangled in the National Auditorium of Madrid after having performed Capriccio nº 24 by Paganini. The murderer has left written on his chest, with blood of the victim, the word Iblis, which means "devil" in Arabic. His instrument, a Stradivarius violin that has the head of a demon carved in the scroll, has mysteriously disappeared. Raul Perdomo must discover the identity of the murderer and the chilling relationship between crime and Paganini's macabre death almost two centuries ago. |
| 111,00 | The drowned violin | 2006 | Novel (music) | H. Mel Malton | Alan and his friends think they can solve the mystery of the dead man they found floating that summer. Soon they will be among a gang of thugs, a hermit and the theft of a violin of great value. |
| 112,00 | The Fire (The Eight) | 1988 | Novel (chess) | Katherine Neville | A story about the search for an ancient chess game |
| 113,00 | The Flanders Panel (La tabla de Flandes) | 1990 | Novel (chess) | Arturo Pérez Reverte | The discovery of a hidden inscription on a canvas in the form of a chess game, initiates an enigma that can change the destiny of European history |
| 114,00 | The game of chess and other stories | 2016 | Novel (chess) | Stefan Zweig | The exile of a chess world champion |
| 115,00 | The garden of the departed cats | 1979 | Novel (chess) | Bilge Karasu | In a Mediterranean city, an archaic tradition is celebrated every ten years; the citizens of the place stage an ancient game of human chess. But the peculiarity of this representation is that the players carry real weapons and the game can be fatal. |
| 116,00 | The grandmaster's king | 2013 | Novel (chess) | Michael Weitz | The US Chess Championship UU It's underway in Seattle, but someone is killing the players. The clues are scarce and the rumors about who could be the next have everyone on edge. |
| 117,00 | The Joy Luck Club | 2011 | Novel (chess) | Amy Tan | Four immigrant Chinese women living in San Francisco, meet regularly to play mahjong and together they discover their hidden past and experience the cultural conflict and relations between mothers and daughters. |
| 118,00 | The Looking Glass Wars | 2006 | Novel (chess) | Frank Beddor | Part of the premise that Alice's in Wonderland are a distortion of "real story" |
| 119,00 | The Luneburg Variation | 1997 | Novel (chess) | Paolo Mauresing and John Rothschild | Two chess players, a persecuted Jew and a ruthless German, face each other in a duel to the death on a chessboard. |
| 120,00 | The Luthier (El fabricante de instrumentos) | 2017 | Novel (music) | Fernando Cañamares | Princess Laona de Larcandia is determined to declare war without paying attention to an old law that dictates that, before entering the war, every monarch should listen to the White Song, a sacred musical composition. If after that, you still want to fight, the cause is considered fair. Elith with his two friends are willing to stake their lives for the piece to sound again in the Royal Palace and avoid confrontation. |
| 121,00 | The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto | 2012 | Novel (music) | Mitch Albom | Frankie, was a child abandoned and raised by a music teacher in a small Spanish town. But the arrival of the war makes him go into exile in America with his guitar as luggage. There he finds himself in the music scene of the 40s, 50s and 60s, and thanks to his talent for singing he becomes a pop star. |
| 122,00 | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | 1990 | Novel (music) | Oscar Hijuelos | It narrates the passion and intensity of a world where the pulsating and rhythmic rhythm of the mambo imbues and fulfills dreams. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. |
| 123,00 | The Mozart Season | 1991 | Novel (music) | Virginia Euwer Wolff | Allegra has been playing the violin since childhood. With 12 years becomes the youngest contestant in the Young Musicians Competition of Ernest Bloch. When learning the concert, she must close the gap between her and Mozart and find the real music inside her heart. |
| 124,00 | The music teacher's murder (El asesinato del profesor de música) | 2011 | Novel (music) | Jordi Sierra I Fabra | The music teacher, Gustavo Valbuena, has been kidnapped as a result of a sinister bet. Irene, Berto and Antonio are students designated by the criminal to solve the clues of the macabre game, so they will have to test all their knowledge of music, history and common sense. |
| 125,00 | The Musician's Daughter | 2008 | Novel (music) | Susanne Dunlap | Vienna, 18th century. At the court of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, Theresa Maria finds her father, a musician, dead on Christmas Eve. He soon realizes the absence of his valuable violin and the only clue is a strange gold earring hanging from his neck. He begins to investigate the death of his father with the support of composer Joseph Haydn. |
| 126,00 | The other side of chess | 2009 | Novel (chess) | Lola Arjona Olmo | A grandfather and his granddaughter follow the paths of chess to undertake an adventure that will take them to the place where a mystery hidden for centuries is hidden. |
| 127,00 | The pianist | 1999 | Novel (music) | Jerzy Waldorff | It narrates the adventures of a family of musicians during the Nazi invasion of Poland and later years. |
| 128,00 | The piano tuner | 2002 | Novel (music) | Daniel Mason | A piano tuner is tasked with tuning a prestigious piano in ancient Burma |
| 129,00 | The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming Grandmaster | 2012 | Novel (chess) | Tim Crothers | Phiona Mutesi, one of the best chess players in the world, lives in the slums of Kampala. She must deal with everyday life in one of the most unstable countries in the world where girls are taught that dreams do not exist, living forced to be mothers with the threats of AIDS, kidnapping and starvation. |
| 130,00 | The Queen's Gambit | 1983 | Novel (chess) | Walter Tevis | It tells the story of a female chess champion, alcoholic and addicted to sedative drugs |
| 131,00 | The Rainaldi Quartet | 2004 | Novel (music) | Paul Adam | Tomaso Rainaldi, an old and modest violin maker, appears murdered in Cremona. His friend and violinist Gianni Castiglione does not understand who would have wanted to kill him, since Rainaldi had few possessions, no enemies and little money. Not even the police can understand a motive to assassinate him. All he really had was an obsessive love of violins and an encyclopedic knowledge of them ... Perhaps an excessively broad knowledge. |
| 132,00 | The Royal Game (Chess Story) | 1941 | Novel (chess) | Stefan Zweig | Mirko Czentovicz is a chess genius that faces a tough and mysterious opponent in a travel from New York to Buenos Aires. |
| 133,00 | The scar boys | 2014 | Novel (music) | Len Vlahos | Harry Jones rides a Punk Rock band with his friend Johnny. In this way he discovers that music can be the means to rescue him from the aggressions he suffered as a child and to heal his emotional wounds. In addition, his talent makes people look beyond their physical appearance. |
| 134,00 | The soloist | 1986 | Novel (music) | Nicholas Christopher | Max Randal, an extraordinary soloist pianist is preparing to give a concert at Carnegie Hall after being retired for four years. But to his mind come the worries of his past and present loves, his mistakes and problems do not stop tormenting him by making frustration take over his thoughts. |
| 135,00 | The Song of Names | 2002 | Novel (music) | Norman Lebrecht | Martin Simmonds loves Dovidl Rapoport, a disturbingly gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the care of the Simmonds before they died in the Holocaust. For a time, the two boys are more than brothers. But the day he will make his official debut, Dovidl disappears. Only 40 years later, Martin gets his first clue about what happened to him. |
| 136,00 | The Squares of the City | 1965 | Novel (chess) | John Brunner | It is a science fiction story of the urban class war and the political intrigue with the structure of a famous chess game that plays an important role in the story. |
| 137,00 | The Three Sailors' Gambit | 1916 | Novel (chess) | Lord Dunsany | A group of sailors play chess while sailing on the high seas, noticing the subtleties of the game. Observing the movement of the pieces and the development of the game on the board begin to draw deep conclusions as metaphors about life. |
| 138,00 | The Tournament | 2014 | Novel (chess) | Matthew Reilly | 1546. Roger Ascham, the mentor of Queen Elizabeth, travels to the Ottoman Empire accepting the challenge of a chess tournament in which Gilbert Giles represents England. But he has a ruthless murderer loose that Roger will have to catch. |
| 139,00 | Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There | 1871 | Novel (chess) | Lewis Carroll | Second part of "Alice in wonderland". Shows the second trip from Alice to wonderland to help solve serious problems that have happened in her absence |
| 140,00 | To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road | 2005 | Novel (music) | Winton Marsalis | Telling his own experience, Marsalis explains how to become a great musician and lead a full life. |
| 141,00 | Valentina y el afinador de pianos | 2014 | Novel (music) | Patricia García Sánchez | Illustrated musical novel for children that, as a story, mix magic, music, color, education in values and adventures. A journey in search of lost beauty. |
| 142,00 | Violin | 2011 | Novel (music) | Anne Rice | Triana, a 19th-century woman who dreams of becoming a violinist, begins to be persecuted by Stefan, a Russian aristocrat who talks to her about a magical violin that he has to charm and dominate her. But Triana resists while she fights to conserve the sanity and the life. |
| 143,00 | Violin stories for the soul | 2013 | Novel (music) | Kirk McLendon | Collection of three stories in which a man is found obsessed with a story before sleeping on a miraculous violin, a young Georgian woman and a soldier of the American Civil War, and a problematic young violin maker who travels with his teacher towards another continent and another century. |
| 144,00 | Violinist of Venice | 2016 | Novel (music) | Alyssa Palombo | Adriana d'Amato loves music but her strict merchant father has forbidden her to cultivate her gift for the violin. At night, Adriana take violin lessons from virtuoso violinist and composer Antonio Vivaldi without anyone knowing. However, what begins as secret lessons rapidly evolves into a passionate and ardent love story. |
| 145,00 | Vivaldi's virgin | 2007 | Novel (music) | Barbara Quick | After being abandoned as a child, Anna Maria Dal Violin enters the house of the foundlings and in a short time becomes one of the elite musicians under the mastery of the "red priest", Antonio Vivaldi. Anna Maria wants to discover who she is and where she comes from |
| 146,00 | Voice of the violin | 2004 | Novel (music) | Andrea Camilleri | Inspector Montalbano's discovery of an adorable and naked young woman murdered in his bed immediately makes him look for his murderer. Among the suspects are her elderly husband, a famous doctor; a timid admirer, now disappeared; a lover of Bologna antiques; and the friend of the victim Anna, whose charms Montalbano can not fail to appreciate. A mysterious and lonely violinist who has the key to murder. |
| 147,00 | Where She Went | 2011 | Novel (music) | Gayle Forman | It has been three years since the relationship between Adam and Mia broke down. Mia, a rising singer, lives in New York, while Adam, a rock star, resides in LA. By chance they both meet again in New York, opening old feelings between them. |
| 148,00 | White tears | 2017 | Novel (music) | Hari Kunzru | Seth, a shy young man, and Carter, heir to a great fortune, are two New Yorkers in their twenties with an obsession with music. Seth records an unknown singer in a park, and Carter sends him over the Internet, claiming it is a 20s blues recording of Charlie Shaw. When an old collector contacts them to say that their false record and their false bluesman are real, the two young people are involved in a story of greed, envy, revenge and exploitation. |
| 149,00 | Your Fame Will Destroy You | 2016 | Novel (music) | Nicole E. Woolaston | The members of "Our Lady of Righteous Rage" have established themselves as more than just a garage band. Along with this new identity, fame comes. Along with fame, there is a high price that they never expected: their privacy. Amy and her friends must learn to deal with their problems and their fame, before their fame destroys everything they have worked for. |
| 150,00 | Zugzwang | 2006 | Novel (chess) | Ronan Bennett | A thriller set in St. Petersburg in 1914 in the middle of an international chess tournament and a series of mysterious murders. |
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Works created specially for the projectHistorias de Beatriz
Beatriz es un personaje original de Silvia Pazos Hermida, creado expresamente en 2016 para las historias de ficción del Universo MusiChess[1].
En estas historias de Beatriz nos sumergiremos tanto en su evolución personal y emocional experimentada desde la infancia hasta la madurez como en sus sorprendentes encuentros con relevantes personajes de la historia de la música. Una vez finalizado su “viaje hacia la madurez”, nuestra protagonista ingresará en una misteriosa organización y pasará a formar parte del elenco de personajes de nuestro venidero cómic, unificando ambas tramas.
Pero vayamos con calma, porque estamos adelantando acontecimientos. De momento Beatriz es una inocente niña con mucho aún por vivir. Empecemos por el País de los Cuatros Tiempos.
Actualización:
Beatriz ya no es una niña. Pero tal vez Cuatro Tiempos resulte demasiado rígido para una mente tan clara como la suya. Un nuevo territorio se abre ante sus ojos, con toda la armonía del Renacimiento y sus grandes músicos. Rinascittà es el lugar en el que desea quedarse… pero no se lo van a poner fácil.
Os invito a acompañar a la chica por las luces y las sombras de una Antigüedad plagada de misterio.
[1] El Universo MusiChess consta, hasta la fecha, de tres apartados. El primero: Compositores de música vs. Jugadores de Ajedrez (Music Composers vs. Chess Players, en inglés), dentro de la sección Profiles. El segundo: Historias de Beatriz, en la subsección Literary Art, dentro de Art y Art & Science. El tercero: un cómic, aún por estrenar, ilustrado por Marisa Ordóñez (próximamente en la subsección Graphic & Visual Arts, dentro de Art y Art & Science).
*Silvia Pazos Hermida también es autora de algunos de los duelos de la subsección Music Composers vs. Chess Players, que pueden encontrar en Profiles.
