Classical Music and related fandoms
I’m posting this because I suspect I’m not the only person who nominated a classical music fandom who wished there were an easy place to find them ALL, regardless of the source medium. So many (all?) of our nominations are rare, and a lot of them wind up in categories like “Other Media” or “Uncategorized,” which makes it really hard to find and offer stuff!
So, below the cut is a (most likely incomplete!) list of the classical music fandoms I’ve been able to identify. I arbitrarily included a few stage musicals that I know have classical scores, but I did not include shows like “Next to Normal” or “Merrily We Roll Along.”
If you know of a nominated fandom that I didn't include that you think should be on this list, please add it in comments!
Aida - Verdi/Ghislanzoni
Aida
Amonasro
Radames
Amneris
Am Donaustrande - Brahms (song)
Maiden (Am Donaustrande)
Narrator (Am Donaustrande)
Ballets Russes RPF
Igor Stravinsky
Romola de Pulszky
Sergei Diaghilev
Vaslav Nijinsky
Classical Music RPF
Claude Debussy
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Johann Sebastian Bach
Maurice Ravel
Alma Mahler
Benjamin Britten
Clara Schumann
Franz Liszt
Frédéric Chopin
Gustav Mahler
Johannes Brahms
Robert Schumann
Les Contes d'Hoffman - Offenbach/Barbier
Antonia (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Giulietta (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
La Muse | Nicklausse
Olympia (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
Cradle Will Rock (1999)
Hallie Flanagan
John Houseman
Marc Blitzstein [the fact that Blitzstein is in the character list is why this fandom was included!]
Orson Welles
Die Csárdásfürstin / The Gypsy Princess
Count Boni Káncsiánu
Countess Stasi
Prince Edwin von und zu Lippert-Weylersheim
Sylva Varescu
Don Giovanni - Mozart/Da Ponte
Don Giovanni (Character)
Leporello
Donizetti - L'Elisir d'Amore
Adina (L'Elisir d'Amore)
Belcore
Dr Ducamara
Nemorino
Don Juan - Lord Byron [technically not a music fandom at all, but Mozart and Strauss have ensured that this story will always be of interest to me!]
Don Juan
Narrator (Don Juan - Lord Byron)
Eternal Sonata
Allegretto (Eternal Sonata)
Falsetto (Eternal Sonata)
Frederic Chopin (Eternal Sonata)
Jazz (Eternal Sonata)
Polka (Eternal Sonata)
Viola (Eternal Sonata)
Fidelio (Op. 72)
Florestan (Fidelio)
Jaquino (Fidelio)
Lenore "Fidelio" (Fidelio)
Marzelline (Fidelio)
Help Help The Globolinks - Gian Carlo Menotti
Hilda Tablet
Elsa Strauss
Evelyn Baxter
Herbert Reeve
Hilda Tablet
Horrible Histories (TV 2009)
Ludwig van Beethoven (Horrible Histories)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Horrible Histories)
The Light in the Piazza (musical)
Clara Johnson
Ensemble
Fabrizio Naccarelli
Franca Naccarelli
Margaret Johnson
A Little Night Music - Sondheim/Wheeler
Anne Egerman
Charlotte Malcolm
Desiree Armfeldt
Frederik Egerman
Die Lustige Witwe | The Merry Widow
Danilo Danilowitsch
Hanna Glawari
Valencienne
Le nozze di Figaro | The Marriage of Figaro - Mozart/Da Ponte
Cherubino
Count Almaviva
Figaro
Rosina La Contessa di Almaviva
Susanna (Figaro)
Nußknacker und Mausekönig | Nutcracker and the Mouse King - E. T. A. Hoffmann [Note- this is the short story, not the ballet.]
Droßelmeier
Marie Stahlbaum
Nussknacker | Nutcracker
Passion - Sondheim/Lapine
Colonel Ricci
Ludovic
Clara (Passion)
Fosca (Passion)
The Red Violin (1998)
The Red Shoes
Boris Lermontov
Grischa Ljubov
Irina Boronskaja
Victoria Page
Swan Lake (ballet)
Odette
Odile
Prince Siegfried
Von Rothbart
Swan Lake (Bourne)
The Prince (Bourne Swan Lake)
The Queen (Bourne Swan Lake)
The Stranger (Bourne Swan Lake)
The Swan (Bourne Swan Lake)
Sweeney Todd - Sondheim/Wheeler
Lucy Barker
Sweeney Todd
Johanna Barker
Judge Turpin
Lucy Barker
Nelly Lovett
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto RPF
Antonina Ivanovna Tchaikovskaia
Iosif Iosifovich Kotek
Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Threepenny Opera - Brecht/Weill
Jackie "Tiger" Brown
Macheath
Die Zauberflöte | The Magic Flute - Mozart/Schikaneder
Pamina
Papageno
Königin der Nacht | Queen of the Night
Sarastro
Finally, don't forget to doublecheck categories like 20th Century CE RPF (one of the listed characters is Benjamin Britten) and Literary RPF, which contains no composers but does include many close acquaintances, like Christopher Isherwood, W.H. Auden, George Sand, E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Hugo Van Hoffmansthal.
[Edited to add fandoms/characters from below and also to say that I really hope someone will write fic for Eternal Sonata! Also, if you have info about fandoms on the list and would like to share/advertise in comments, feel free!]
So, below the cut is a (most likely incomplete!) list of the classical music fandoms I’ve been able to identify. I arbitrarily included a few stage musicals that I know have classical scores, but I did not include shows like “Next to Normal” or “Merrily We Roll Along.”
If you know of a nominated fandom that I didn't include that you think should be on this list, please add it in comments!
Aida - Verdi/Ghislanzoni
Aida
Amonasro
Radames
Amneris
Am Donaustrande - Brahms (song)
Maiden (Am Donaustrande)
Narrator (Am Donaustrande)
Ballets Russes RPF
Igor Stravinsky
Romola de Pulszky
Sergei Diaghilev
Vaslav Nijinsky
Classical Music RPF
Claude Debussy
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Johann Sebastian Bach
Maurice Ravel
Alma Mahler
Benjamin Britten
Clara Schumann
Franz Liszt
Frédéric Chopin
Gustav Mahler
Johannes Brahms
Robert Schumann
Les Contes d'Hoffman - Offenbach/Barbier
Antonia (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Giulietta (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
La Muse | Nicklausse
Olympia (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
Cradle Will Rock (1999)
Hallie Flanagan
John Houseman
Marc Blitzstein [the fact that Blitzstein is in the character list is why this fandom was included!]
Orson Welles
Die Csárdásfürstin / The Gypsy Princess
Count Boni Káncsiánu
Countess Stasi
Prince Edwin von und zu Lippert-Weylersheim
Sylva Varescu
Don Giovanni - Mozart/Da Ponte
Don Giovanni (Character)
Leporello
Donizetti - L'Elisir d'Amore
Adina (L'Elisir d'Amore)
Belcore
Dr Ducamara
Nemorino
Don Juan - Lord Byron [technically not a music fandom at all, but Mozart and Strauss have ensured that this story will always be of interest to me!]
Don Juan
Narrator (Don Juan - Lord Byron)
Eternal Sonata
Allegretto (Eternal Sonata)
Falsetto (Eternal Sonata)
Frederic Chopin (Eternal Sonata)
Jazz (Eternal Sonata)
Polka (Eternal Sonata)
Viola (Eternal Sonata)
Fidelio (Op. 72)
Florestan (Fidelio)
Jaquino (Fidelio)
Lenore "Fidelio" (Fidelio)
Marzelline (Fidelio)
Help Help The Globolinks - Gian Carlo Menotti
Hilda Tablet
Elsa Strauss
Evelyn Baxter
Herbert Reeve
Hilda Tablet
Horrible Histories (TV 2009)
Ludwig van Beethoven (Horrible Histories)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Horrible Histories)
The Light in the Piazza (musical)
Clara Johnson
Ensemble
Fabrizio Naccarelli
Franca Naccarelli
Margaret Johnson
A Little Night Music - Sondheim/Wheeler
Anne Egerman
Charlotte Malcolm
Desiree Armfeldt
Frederik Egerman
Die Lustige Witwe | The Merry Widow
Danilo Danilowitsch
Hanna Glawari
Valencienne
Le nozze di Figaro | The Marriage of Figaro - Mozart/Da Ponte
Cherubino
Count Almaviva
Figaro
Rosina La Contessa di Almaviva
Susanna (Figaro)
Nußknacker und Mausekönig | Nutcracker and the Mouse King - E. T. A. Hoffmann [Note- this is the short story, not the ballet.]
Droßelmeier
Marie Stahlbaum
Nussknacker | Nutcracker
Passion - Sondheim/Lapine
Colonel Ricci
Ludovic
Clara (Passion)
Fosca (Passion)
The Red Violin (1998)
The Red Shoes
Boris Lermontov
Grischa Ljubov
Irina Boronskaja
Victoria Page
Swan Lake (ballet)
Odette
Odile
Prince Siegfried
Von Rothbart
Swan Lake (Bourne)
The Prince (Bourne Swan Lake)
The Queen (Bourne Swan Lake)
The Stranger (Bourne Swan Lake)
The Swan (Bourne Swan Lake)
Sweeney Todd - Sondheim/Wheeler
Lucy Barker
Sweeney Todd
Johanna Barker
Judge Turpin
Lucy Barker
Nelly Lovett
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto RPF
Antonina Ivanovna Tchaikovskaia
Iosif Iosifovich Kotek
Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Threepenny Opera - Brecht/Weill
Jackie "Tiger" Brown
Macheath
Die Zauberflöte | The Magic Flute - Mozart/Schikaneder
Pamina
Papageno
Königin der Nacht | Queen of the Night
Sarastro
Finally, don't forget to doublecheck categories like 20th Century CE RPF (one of the listed characters is Benjamin Britten) and Literary RPF, which contains no composers but does include many close acquaintances, like Christopher Isherwood, W.H. Auden, George Sand, E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Hugo Van Hoffmansthal.
[Edited to add fandoms/characters from below and also to say that I really hope someone will write fic for Eternal Sonata! Also, if you have info about fandoms on the list and would like to share/advertise in comments, feel free!]