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Works based on Faust

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Faust has inspired artistic and cultural works for over four centuries. The following lists cover various media to include items of historic interest, enduring works of high art, and recent representations in popular culture. The entries represent works that a reader has a reasonable chance of encountering rather than a complete catalog.

Contents

Ballets

  • Faust by Jules Perrot (1848)

    • Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven's Opus 75 no 3 (1809) Song — Aus Goethes Faust: "Es war einmal ein König"
  • Franz Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814)
  • Richard Wagner's Faust Overture (1840)
  • Felix Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht (1843)
  • Hector Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (1845–46) (sometimes performed in staged opera versions)
  • Charles-Valentin Alkan's Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges', Op.33: 2nd Movement "Quasi-Faust" (1847)
  • Robert Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust (completed 1853)
  • Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony (1854–57) and Mephisto Waltzes
  • Henryk Wieniawski's Fantaise brillante on themes from Gounod's Faust, Op.20. (1865)
  • Jean-Delphin Alard's Fantaisie de concert sur Faust, Op. 47 (c. 1868)
  • Henri Vieuxtemps's Fantasie sur "Faust" de Ch. Gounod (p.1869)
  • Pablo de Sarasate's "Nouvelle fantaisie sur 'Faust'", Op. 13 (1874)
  • Modest Mussorgsky: "Mephistopheles' song of the flea" (1879) is a version of the song that Mephistopheles sings in the tavern scene of Goethe's Faust, pt. 1.
  • Jean Roger-Ducasse's Au jardin de Marguerite, symphonic poem with chorus (1905)
  • Gustav Mahler's Part II of Symphony No. 8 (1906–07)
  • Lili Boulanger's Faust et Hélène (1913)
  • Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony (1919–27)
  • Julius Röntgen's Aus Goethes Faust (1931)
  • Hans Werner Henze's Chor gefangener Trojer (1948)
  • Alexander Lokshin's Three Scenes from Goethe's Faust (for soprano and orchestra) (1980)
  • Alfred Schnittke's Faust Cantata (1982–83)

    • Operas

  • Louis Spohr's Faust (1816)
  • Hector Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust (1846)
  • Charles Gounod's Faust (1859)
  • Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele (1868)
  • Meyer Lutz's romantic opera Faust and Marguerite and his burlesque Faust up to date (1888)
  • Ferruccio Busoni's Doktor Faust (1916–25)
  • Sergei Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel (1927; first performed 1954)
  • Hermann Reutter's
  • Doktor Johannes Faust, Op. 47 (1936, revised 1955)
  • Don Juan und Faust, Op. 75 (1950)
  • Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938 libretto)
  • Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1951)
  • Hanns Eisler's Johann Faustus (1952 libretto)
  • Havergal Brian's Faust (1955–56)
  • Henri Pousseur (music) and Michel Butor (libretto), Votre Faust (1960–68), and related "satellite" works
  • Konrad Boehmer's Doktor Faustus (1983), libretto by Hugo Claus
  • Alfred Schnittke's Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1994)
  • John Coolidge Adams' Doctor Atomic (2005)
  • Pascal Dusapin's Faustus, the Last Night (2006)

    • Comics and animation

  • Classics Illustrated, issue 167
  • Hellblazer, storyline Dangerous Habits
  • Ghost Rider
  • Faust, a series of graphic novels.
  • The Adventures of Nero
  • Spawn
  • Defoe
  • V for Vendetta

    • Faust, Der Tragödie erster Teil, both by German artist Flix

  • Felix Faust

    • Manga and anime

  • Soul Cartel (Korean webtoon)
  • Death Note
  • Osamu Tezuka's Faust (1950)
  • R.O.D
  • Shaman King
  • Kuroshitsuji, or Black Butler
  • Sword Art Online contains multiple references.
  • Devilman
  • Berserk
  • Fullmetal Alchemist
  • Sand Land by Akira Toriyama
  • Double Cast (a play within the manga)
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Contains references of the works based on Faust)
  • Necromancer (manga)
  • Ao no Exorcist, or "Blue Exorcist"
  • King of Thorn
  • Code Geass

    • Contemporary music

  • Faun's song König von Thule is a cover of Gretchen's song in the first part of Goethe's Faust (lines 2759-82). Goethe wrote this particular song in 1774.
  • Blues guitarist Robert Johnson, fancifully said to have acquired his playing skill from the devil at a deserted crossroads. Songs such as "Cross Road Blues" and "Me and the Devil Blues" allude to his pact with the devil.
  • Blues guitarist Tommy Johnson, also claimed to have sold his soul to the devil in exchange for guitar mastery, though Tommy Johnson's claim precedes that of Robert Johnson's.
  • Randy Newman's "Faust"
  • Kamelot's Epica Saga (Epica and The Black Halo)
  • The Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Beethoven's Last Night
  • Switchfoot's "Faust, Midas and Myself" (2006)
  • Cradle of Filth's "Absinthe with Faust" song (from the album Nymphetamine)
  • Little Tragedies' New Faust (2003).
  • Akercocke's "Marguerite & Gretchen" (from the album Rape of the Bastard Nazarene, 1999); the band's name is taken from the talking Capuchin monkey in Robert Nye's Faust.
  • Enigma "Dancing With Mephisto" (from the album A Posteriori)
  • Radiohead's "Faust Arp" and "Videotape" (from the album In Rainbows)
  • Tenacious D's "The Pick of Destiny"
  • Muse's "The Small Print" (from the album Absolution, originally titled "Action Faust")
  • Current 93's album Faust, based on a story by Count Eric Stenbock.
  • Frank Zappa's "Titties & Beer" (from the album Zappa in New York)
  • Tom Waits's "Lucinda" (from the album Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards)
  • The Band's "Daniel and the Sacred Harp" (from the album Stage Fright)
  • Sabbat's "A Cautionary Tale" (from the album History of a Time to Come)
  • The Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down to Georgia".
  • Streetlight Manifesto's "Down, Down, Down to Mephisto's Cafe" (from the album Somewhere in the Between)
  • Dark Moor's "Faustus" (from the album Autumnal)
  • The Police's "Wrapped Around Your Finger" single (from the album Synchroncity) refers to Mephistopheles by way of analogy
  • Gorillaz' "Faust" (from the album G-Sides)
  • Konrad Boehmer Apocalipsis cum figuris (electronic, instrumental, vocal, 1984)
  • Konrad Boehmer Doktor Fausti Höllenfahrt (orchestra, 2006)
  • Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"
  • Moonspell's "Mephisto" (from the album Irreligious)
  • Septic Flesh's "Faust" from the album Sumerian Daemons
  • Faust, a German Krautrock band
  • The Fall's "Dktr Faustus" (from the album Bend Sinister)
  • Poet JB Goodenough's "Children of Michael" which tells the story of a man named Michael who makes a deal with the year (the devil or fate), to have many children but the year has to "choose one for himself". The story features a chorus throughout, and was recorded by Irish folk singer Tommy Makem on his album Ancient Pulsing.
  • Agalloch's "Faustian Echoes"
  • The Human Abstract's "Faust" (2011)
  • SicKtanicK's "Faust" (from the album "Chapter 3: Awake (The Ministry of Hate))
  • Marilyn Manson's "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" (from the album The Pale Emperor)
  • Blue Öyster Cult's "Burnin' for you"
  • Faust is the stage name of black metal musician Bård Eithun.
  • Ihsahn's "Alchemist" (from the album angL, 2008) quotes two passages from Goethe's Faust. The songs "Malediction" and "Elevator" likewise allude to Faustian themes.
  • Secret Sphere's "Dr. Faustus" (from the album A Time Never Come, 2001)
  • Iron Mask's "Doctor Faust" (from the album Diabolica, 2016)

    • Fairy tales

  • The Mexican fairy tale The Tailor Who Sold His Soul to the Devil is about a tailor who challenges the devil to a sewing contest, in exchange for his soul.

    • Film and television

  • Faust (1926)
  • The Student of Prague (1926)
  • The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
  • Heaven Can Wait (1943)
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
  • Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
  • Alias Nick Beal (1949)
  • Damn Yankees! (1958)
  • Johanes Doktor Faust (Emil Radok, 1958)
  • Little Shop of Horrors (1960, 1986)
  • Faust (1960)
  • Woe to the Young (1961)
  • Faust (1964)
  • Faust XX (1966)
  • Seconds (1966)
  • Bedazzled (1967), Bedazzled (2000)
  • Doctor Faustus (1967)
  • Rosemary's Baby (1968)
  • El extraño caso del doctor Fausto (1969)
  • Il maestro e Margherita (1972)
  • President Faust (1974)
  • Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
  • The Omen (1976)
  • The Forbidden (1978)
  • The Devil and Daniel Mouse (1978 animated TV special)
  • The Shining (1980)
  • Faust/us Renewed (series of shorts '81-'89) - Damnation (series of shorts '92-'98) - The Cabinet of Dr. Mephisto (series of animation shorts '99-'06)
  • The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)
  • Mephisto (1981)
  • Doktor Faustus (1982)
  • Oh, God! You Devil (1984)
  • Crossroads (1986)
  • Angel Heart (1987)
  • The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
  • Faust (1994)
  • "Fleabitten Bargain" (an episode of the series Wishbone) (1995)
  • The Devil's Advocate (1997)
  • Spawn (1997)
  • G vs E (television series 1999-2000)
  • Dracula 2000 (2000)
  • Faust: Love of the Damned (2001)
  • Fausto 5.0 (2001)
  • I Was a Teenage Faust (2002)
  • Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)
  • Faustbook (2006)
  • Click (2006)
  • Ghost Rider (2007)
  • Alf Mabrouk (Egyptian Film, 2008)
  • Faust (2008)
  • Raaz – The Mystery Continues (2009)
  • The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
  • Dorian Gray (2009)
  • Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012)
  • The Witch (2015)

    • Paintings

  • Faust (1976–79)

    • Plays

  • Faustbuch, anonymous German (1587), the earliest known Faust work
  • Jacob Bidermann's Cenodoxus (1602)
  • Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (A-text 1604, B-text 1616)
  • William Mountfort's The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, made into a farce (1697)
  • John Rich's The Necromancer, or Harlequin Dr. Faustus (1723)
  • John Thurmond's Harlequin Doctor Faustus (1723) and The Miser, or Wagner and Abericock (1726)
  • Gotthold Lessing's Doktor Faust, mentioned in a contribution to a magazine (1759), but otherwise left unfinished and collected and published posthumously (1784) in its original, incomplete form
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (1806–1832)
  • Christian Dietrich Grabbe's Don Juan und Faust (1829)
  • Alexander Pushkin's A scene from Faust (1830)
  • Nikolaus Lenau's Faust (1836)
  • George Sand's Les Sept Cordes de la Lyre (1838)
  • Heinrich Heine's Der Doktor Faust. Ein Tanzpoem (1851)
  • Dion Boucicault's Faust and Margaret (London, 1854)
  • Friedrich Theodor Vischer's Faust. Der Tragödie dritter Teil (Faust: Part Three of the Tragedy, 1862), a parody of Goethe's Faust Part Two
  • H. J. Byron's Little Doctor Faust (1877) (a musical burlesque at the Gaiety Theatre)
  • W. S. Gilbert's Gretchen, an 1879 play based on Goethe's version of the Faust legend
  • Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du soldat (1918), a theatrical piece "to be read, played and danced" with a libretto by C.F. Ramuz
  • Anatoly Lunacharsky's Фауст и город (Faust and the City) (1918)
  • Michel de Ghelderode's La Mort du Docteur Faust (1925)
  • Fernando Pessoa's Fausto Tragédia Subjectiva (Faust Subjective Tragedy)
  • Dorothy L. Sayers' The Devil to Pay (1939)
  • Paul Valéry's Mon Faust (unfinished 1940)
  • Cabin in the Sky (1940)
  • Richard Adler and Jerry Ross's Damn Yankees (1955)
  • Václav Havel's Temptation (1986)
  • Richard Schechner's Faust Gastronome (1994)
  • Todd Alcott's Jane Faust (1995)
  • George Axelrod's Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955)
  • David Ives's Don Juan in Chicago (1995)
  • John Jesurun's Faust/How I Rose (1996)
  • La Fura dels Baus's Faust: Version 3.0 (1998)
  • David Mamet's Faustus (2004)
  • Punchdrunk's Faust in Promenade (2006–2007)
  • David Davalos' Wittenberg (2008)
  • Edgar Brau's Fausto (2009), a play

    • Poetry

  • George Gordon, Lord Byron's Manfred (1817)
  • Estanislao del Campo, Fausto (1866) (Spanish)
  • D. J. Enright's "A Faust Book" (1975)
  • Carol Ann Duffy's "Mrs Faust"
  • Charles Baudelaire's "Châtiment De L`Orgueil (Punishment of Pride)" (1857) and "The Generous Gambler" (posthumous 1869)
  • Karl Shapiro's "The Progress of Faust"
  • J. M. R. Lenz's "Die Hollenrichter" (unfinished)
  • Hart Crane's "Of the Marriage of Faustus and Helen"
  • Joseph Brodsky's "Two Hours in Reservoir"

    • Prose fiction

  • Friedrich Maximilian Klinger's Fausts Leben, Thaten und Höllenfahrt (1791)
  • Matthew Lewis's "The Monk" (1796)
  • Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
  • Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker" (1824)
  • G. W. M. Reynolds' Faust: A Romance of the Secret Tribunals and Wagner, the Wehr-wolf (both 1847)
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" (1835)
  • Ivan Turgenev's Faust (1855)
  • Charles Baudelaire's The Generous Gambler (1864)
  • Louisa May Alcott's A Modern Mephistopheles (1877)
  • Samuel Adams Drake's Jonathan Moulton and the Devil (1884)
  • Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
  • Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
  • Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's Quincas Borba (1891)
  • Peadar Ua Laoghaire's Séadna (Written in Munster Irish, serialised in the 1890s)
  • Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan (1896)
  • Alfred Jarry's Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, pataphysician (1898)
  • Valery Bryusov's The Fiery Angel (1908)
  • Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera (1909-'10)
  • Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita (1929-'40)
  • Klaus Mann's Mephisto (1936)
  • Stephen Vincent Benét's The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)
  • Horace L. Gold and L. Sprague de Camp's None But Lucifer (1939)
  • Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus (1947)
  • John Myers Myers's Silverlock (1949)
  • Douglass Wallop's The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954)
  • William Gaddis' The Recognitions (1955)
  • Mack Reynolds' "Burnt Toast" (1955)
  • Roger Zelazny's For a Breath I Tarry (1966)
  • John Hersey's Too Far to Walk (1966)
  • James Blish's "Black Easter" (1968)
  • Philip K. Dick's Galactic Pot-Healer (1969)
  • Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins (1971)
  • William Hjortsberg's Falling Angel (1978)
  • Robert Nye's Faust (1980)
  • Stephen King's Christine (1983)
  • John Banville's Mefisto (1986)
  • Clive Barker's The Damnation Game (1986)
  • Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart (1986)
  • Carl Deuker's On the Devil's Court (1989)
  • Nelson DeMille's The Gold Coast (1990)
  • Terry Pratchett's Faust Eric (1990)
  • Alan Judd's The Devil's Own Work (1991)
  • Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley's If at Faust You Don't Succeed (1993)
  • Kim Newman's The Quorum (1994)
  • Tom Holt's Faust Among Equals (1994)
  • Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues (1995)
  • Jeanne Kalogridis's The Diaries of the Family Dracul 's trilogy (1995, 1996, 1997)
  • Michael Swanwick's Jack Faust (1997)
  • Angus Fergusson's The Empress (1997)
  • Howard Waldrop's "Heart Of Whitenesse" (1997)
  • Citizen B's Faust: Mein teuflischer Liebhaber (2001)
  • Timothy Taylor's Stanley Park (2001)
  • Susanne Alberti's Fausts Gretchen. Roman einer Verfuehrung (2003)
  • J. Walkinshaw and A. Hussain-Hall's "Ready, Set, Go! - For Whom The School Bell Tolls" (2006)
  • Maureen Johnson's Devilish (2006)
  • Roman Moehlmann's Faust und die Tragoedie der Menschheit (2007)
  • Andreas Goessling's Faust, der Magier (2009)
  • Jonathan L. Howard's Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (2009)
  • David Macinnis Gill's Soul Enchilada (2009)
  • Thomas Wm. Hamilton in The Mountain of Long Eyes (anthology), "Both Sides Now" (2011)
  • Haruki Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2014), Chapter 5 ponders over a Faustian bargain that is in the spirit of Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer.

    • Games

  • Animamundi: Dark Alchemist
  • Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
  • Faust: The Seven Games of the Soul
  • Fausts Alptraum
  • GrimGrimoire
  • Guilty Gear (series)
  • Knights Contract
  • Shadow of Memories
  • Soul Gambler
  • The Seventh Guest
  • Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Willard Wyler is based loosely off of the legend of Faust and Mephistopholes.
  • The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone"

    • References

    Works based on Faust Wikipedia
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