Publisher : Lives and Letters Carcanet Press (25 Jan 2024). The Devil Prefers Mozart is the first comprehensive collection of Anthony Burgesss writings about music. Whether whimsical (Food and Music) satirical (Anybody Can Conduct) or controversial (Why Punk Had to End in Evil) Burgesss writing is consistently informative and entertaining.The music of Debussy sparked Burgesss musical imagination so powerfully when he was a boy in Manchester that he composed his first symphony at eighteen years of age and aspired to a career as a professional composer until his mid-thirties.