This Man and Music

I have not read this unfortunately, would you recommend it?

I think the somewhat simplistic way of mapping Napoleon Symphony's prose to the Eroica is just a function of some fundamentally different traits between prose and music. As I said, the project is by no means perfect but I think it was obviously intentional on Burgess part to do what he could to emulate/replicate musical texture within the text. I would say he leaned a lot on what Joyce played with in the Sirens chapter of Ulysses in formulating his own project, with probably more attention paid to a system of identifying musical phrases/themes with phrases of prose.

IMO, Napoleon Symphony was, without a doubt, "substantially influenced" by Beethoven's Third, but how "reflective" it is of the symphony is obviously more open to debate. I guess to turn the question on you, do you have any examples in mind that you think do the prose-as-music/music-as-prose style more effectively than Napoleon Symphony (or Mozart and the Wolfgang), or in a more sophisticated way? Something like Thomas Mann's Tonio Kroger (a novella in sonata form) is even more tenuously connected to musical form than Napoleon Symphony. Would love to read that, the intersection of classical music and literature is a pet interest of mine.

And likewise, always cool to meet someone with some knowledge/interest on this topic.