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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.^[1]

• Faust by Jules Perrot (1848)
• Faust ballets

• Ludwig van Beethoven's Opus 75 no 3 (1809) Song –Aus Goethes Faust: "Es war einmal ein König"
• Franz Schubert'sGretchen am Spinnrade (1814)
• Giuseppe Verdi'sPerduta ho la pace (1838)
• Richard Wagner'sFaust Overture (1840)
• Felix Mendelssohn'sDie erste Walpurgisnacht (1843)
• Hector Berlioz'sThe Damnation of Faust (1845–46) (sometimes performed in staged opera versions)
• Charles-Valentin Alkan'sGrande sonate 'Les quatre âges', Op. 33: 2nd Movement "Quasi-Faust" (1847)
• Robert Schumann'sScenes from Goethe's Faust (completed 1853)
• Franz Liszt'sFaust Symphony (1854–57) andMephisto Waltzes
• Henryk Wieniawski'sFantaise brillante on themes from Gounod's Faust, Op. 20. (1865)
• Jean-Delphin Alard'sFantaisie de concert sur Faust, Op. 47 (c. 1868)
• Henri Vieuxtemps'sFantasie sur "Faust" de Ch. Gounod (c. 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'sFaust, pt. 1, also previously set by Beethoven.
• Emilie Mayer'sFaust Overture (1880)
• Jean Roger-Ducasse'sAu jardin de Marguerite, symphonic poem with chorus (1905)
• Gustav Mahler's Part II ofSymphony No. 8 (1906–07)
• Sergei Rachmaninoff'sPiano Sonata No.1 (1908)
• Lili Boulanger'sFaust et Hélène (1913)
• Havergal Brian'sGothic Symphony (1919–27) and operaFaust
• Julius Röntgen'sAus Goethes Faust (1931)
• Hans Werner Henze'sChor gefangener Trojer (1948)
• Alexander Lokshin'sThree Scenes from Goethe's Faust (for soprano and orchestra) (1980)
• Alfred Schnittke'sFaust Cantata (1982–83)

• Louis Spohr'sFaust (1816)
• Louise Bertin'sFausto (1831)
• Hector Berlioz'sLa Damnation de Faust (1846)
• Charles Gounod'sFaust (1859)
• Arrigo Boito'sMefistofele (1868)
• Meyer Lutz's romantic operaFaust and Marguerite and hisburlesqueFaust up to date (1888)
• Ferruccio Busoni'sDoktor Faust (1916–25)
• Sergei Prokofiev'sThe Fiery Angel (1927; first performed 1954)
• Hermann Reutter's
  • Doktor Johannes Faust, Op. 47 (1936, revised 1955)
  • Don Juan und Faust, Op. 75 (1950)
• Douglas Moore'sThe Devil and Daniel Webster (1938)
• Gertrude Stein'sDoctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938 libretto)
• Igor Stravinsky'sThe Rake's Progress (1951)
• Hanns Eisler'sJohann Faustus (1952 libretto)
• Havergal Brian'sFaust (1955–56)
• Henri Pousseur (music) andMichel Butor (libretto),Votre Faust (1960–68), and related "satellite" works
• Konrad Boehmer'sDoktor Faustus (1983), libretto byHugo Claus
• Alfred Schnittke'sHistoria von D. Johann Fausten (1994)
• Rudolf Volz'sRock Opera Faust with original lyrics byGoethe (1997)
• John Coolidge Adams'Doctor Atomic (2005)
• Pascal Dusapin'sFaustus, the Last Night (2006)

• Classics Illustrated #167
• Hellblazer, storylineDangerous Habits
• Ghost Rider
• Faust, a series ofgraphic novels
• The Adventures of Nero
• Spawn
• Defoe
• Faust, Der Tragödie erster Teil by German artistFlix
• Felix Faust
• Sebastian Faust
• Treehouse of Horror IV

• Osamu Tezuka'sFaust (1950)
• Shaman King (1998)
• Fullmetal Alchemist (2001)
• Black Butler (2006)
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011)
• Frau Faust (2014)
• Black Clover (2015)

• Blues guitaristTommy Johnson claimed to have sold his soul to the devil in exchange for guitar mastery. Tommy Johnson's claim precedes that of Robert Johnson's.
• Blues guitaristRobert Johnson fancifully said to have acquired his playing skill from the devil at a deserted crossroads. Songs such as "Cross Road Blues" (1936) and "Me and the Devil Blues" (1937) allude to his pact with the devil.
• 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.
• 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 singerTommy Makem on his albumAncient Pulsing.
• The Band's "Daniel and the Sacred Harp" (from the albumStage Fright, 1970)
• Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" (from the albumA Night at the Opera, 1975)
• Frank Zappa's "Titties & Beer" (from the albumZappa in New York, 1977)
• The Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (from the albumMillion Mile Reflections, 1979)
• Blue Öyster Cult's "Burnin' for You" (from the albumFire of Unknown Origin, 1981)
• The Police's "Wrapped Around Your Finger" single (from the albumSynchroncity, 1983) refers to Mephistopheles by way of analogy
• Konrad BoehmerApocalipsis cum figuris (electronic, instrumental, vocal, 1984)
• The Fall's "Dktr Faustus" (from the albumBend Sinister, 1986)
• Sabbat's "A Cautionary Tale" (from the albumHistory of a Time to Come, 1988)
• Randy Newman'sFaust (1995)
• Moonspell's "Mephisto" (from the albumIrreligious, 1996)
• Akercocke's "Marguerite & Gretchen" (from the albumRape of the Bastard Nazarene, 1999); the band's name is taken from the talking Capuchin monkey inRobert Nye'sFaust.
• Current 93's albumFaust (2000), based on a story by CountEric Stenbock
• TheTrans-Siberian Orchestra'sBeethoven's Last Night (2000)
• Secret Sphere's "Dr. Faustus" (from the albumA Time Never Come, 2001)
• Dimmu Borgir's "The Maelstrom Mephisto" (from the albumPuritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, 2001)
• Gorillaz' "Faust" (from the albumG-Sides, 2001)
• Septic Flesh's "Faust" (from the albumSumerian Daemons, 2003)
• Muse's "The Small Print" (from the albumAbsolution, 2003; originally titled "Action Faust")
• Kamelot's Epica Saga (Epica, 2003, andThe Black Halo, 2005)
• Cradle of Filth's "Absinthe with Faust" (from the albumNymphetamine, 2004)
• Immortal Technique's "Dance With The Devil" (from the albumRevolutionary Vol. 1, 2006)
• Konrad BoehmerDoktor Fausti Höllenfahrt (orchestra, 2006)
• Tom Waits's "Lucinda" (from the albumOrphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, 2006)
• Enigma "Dancing With Mephisto" (from the albumA Posteriori, 2006)
• Tenacious D'sThe Pick of Destiny (2006)
• Little Tragedies'New Faust (2006)
• Switchfoot's "Faust, Midas and Myself" (2006)
• Streetlight Manifesto's "Down, Down, Down to Mephisto's Cafe" (from the albumSomewhere in the Between, 2007)
• Radiohead's "Faust Arp" and "Videotape" (from the albumIn Rainbows, 2007)^[2]
• Ihsahn's "Alchemist" (from the albumangL, 2008) quotes two passages fromGoethe's Faust. The songs "Malediction" and "Elevator" likewise allude to Faustian themes
• Dark Moor's "Faustus" (from the albumAutumnal, 2009)
• The Human Abstract's "Faust" (2011)
• Agalloch'sFaustian Echoes (2012)
• SicKtanicK's "Faust" (from the albumChapter 3: Awake (The Ministry of Hate), 2012)
• Marilyn Manson's "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" (from the albumThe Pale Emperor, 2015)
• Halsey's "Hold Me Down" (from the albumBadlands, 2016) makes a number of sexualized Faustian allusions
• Iron Mask's "Doctor Faust" (from the albumDiabolica, 2016)
• Faust is the stage name of black metal musician Bård Eithun.
• Faust, a German Krautrock band
• Ghost's "Call Me Little Sunshine" (From the albumImperia, 2022). Mephistophles is the main protagonist of the song, trying to steal "little sunshines" body.

• Stingy Jack
• The Tailor Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
• The Little Mermaid
• Wicked John and the Devil (Appalachian folklore)

• The Laboratory of Mephistopheles (1897; France)
• The Damnation of Faust (1903; France)
• Faust and Marguerite (1904; France)
• The Student of Prague (1913; Germany)
• Rapsodia satanica (1915; Italy)
• Faust (1926; Germany)
• The Student of Prague (1926; Germany)
• The Legend of Faust (1949; Italy)
• La Main du diable (1943; France)
• Marguerite de la nuit (1955; France)
• Faust (1960; Germany)
• El extraño caso del doctor Fausto (1969; Spanish)
• Mephisto (1981; Hungary)
• Doctor Faustus (1982; West Germany)
• Faust (1994) (1994, coproduction Czech Republic, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany)
• The Master and Margarita (1994) (TV; Russia)
• Faust: Love of the Damned (2000: Spain)
• Fausto 5.0 (2001: Spain)
• Ultraman Nexus (2004-2005: Japan)
• Faust (2011: Russia)
• When the Devil Calls Your Name (2019: South Korea)

• Faust and Marguerite (1900)
• The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
• Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
• Alias Nick Beal (1949)
• Up in Smoke (1957)
• Damn Yankees (1958)
• The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
  • Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
• Bedazzled (1967)
  • Bedazzled (2000)
• Doctor Faustus (1967)
• Rosemary's Baby (1968)
• Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
• The Omen (1976)
  • Damien: Omen II (1978)
  • Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981)
  • Omen IV: The Awakening (1991)
  • The Omen (2006)
• The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)
• Oh, God! You Devil (1984)
• Crossroads (1986)
• Angel Heart (1987)
• Hellraiser (1987)
• The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
• The Little Mermaid (1989)
  • The Little Mermaid (2023)
• The Devil's Advocate (1997)
• Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
• Shortcut to Happiness (2007)
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
• The Witch (2015)
• American Satan (2017)
• Upgrade (2018)
• The Last Faust (2019)

Television:

• The Twilight Zone Episodes:
  • Escape Clause (1959)
  • Still Valley (1961)
  • Printer's Devil (1963)
  • Of Late I Think of Cliffordville (1963)
  • The Last Night of a Jockey (1963)
  • Dealer's Choice (1985)
  • I of Newton (1985)
  • Time and Teresa Golowitz (1987)
• Dinosaurs:
  • Life in the Faust Lane (1994)
• I Was a Teenage Faust (2002)
• Paradise City (2021)

• Faust (1976–1979)

• Faustbuch, anonymous German (1587), the earliest known Faust work
• Jacob Bidermann'sCenodoxus (1602)
• Christopher Marlowe'sThe Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (A-text 1604, B-text 1616)
• William Mountfort'sThe Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, made into a farce (1697)
• John Rich'sThe Necromancer, or Harlequin Dr. Faustus (1723)
• John Thurmond'sHarlequin Doctor Faustus (1723) andThe Miser, or Wagner and Abericock (1726)
• Gotthold Lessing'sDoktor 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'sFaust (1806–1832)
• Christian Dietrich Grabbe'sDon Juan und Faust (1829)
• Alexander Pushkin'sA scene from Faust (1830)
• Nikolaus Lenau'sFaust (1836)
• George Sand'sLes Sept Cordes de la Lyre (1838)
• Heinrich Heine'sDer Doktor Faust. Ein Tanzpoem (1851)
• Dion Boucicault'sFaust and Margaret (London, 1854)
• Friedrich Theodor Vischer'sFaust. Der Tragödie dritter Teil (Faust: Part Three of the Tragedy, 1862), a parody of Goethe'sFaust Part Two
• H. J. Byron'sLittle Doctor Faust (1877) (amusical burlesque at theGaiety Theatre)
• W. S. Gilbert'sGretchen, an 1879 play based onGoethe's version of the Faust legend
• Igor Stravinsky'sHistoire du soldat (1918), a theatrical piece "to be read, played and danced" with a libretto byC.F. Ramuz
• Anatoly Lunacharsky'sФауст и город (Faust and the City) (1918)
• Michel de Ghelderode'sLa Mort du Docteur Faust (1925)
• Fernando Pessoa'sFausto Tragédia Subjectiva (Faust Subjective Tragedy)
• Dorothy L. Sayers'The Devil to Pay (1939)
• Paul Valéry'sMon Faust (unfinished 1940)
• Cabin in the Sky (1940)
• Richard Adler andJerry Ross'sDamn Yankees (1955)
• Václav Havel'sTemptation (1986)
• Richard Schechner'sFaust Gastronome (1994)
• Todd Alcott'sJane Faust (1995)
• George Axelrod'sWill Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955)
• Little Shop of Horrors, a musical byHoward Ashman andAlan Menken based onThe 1960 Film (1982)
• David Ives'sDon Juan in Chicago (1995)
• John Jesurun'sFaust/How I Rose (1996)
• La Fura dels Baus'sFaust: Version 3.0 (1998)
• David Mamet'sFaustus (2004)
• Punchdrunk'sFaust in Promenade (2006–2007)
• David Davalos'Wittenberg (2008)
• Edgar Brau'sFausto (2009), a play
• David Massingham and Matthew Townend'sPlague! The Musical (2008)

• George Gordon, Lord Byron'sManfred (1817)
• Estanislao del Campo,Fausto (1866)(in 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"
• Alexandre Pushkin's "Little Tragedies"

• Friedrich Maximilian Klinger'sFausts Leben, Thaten und Höllenfahrt (1791)
• Matthew Lewis'sThe Monk (1796)
• Charles Maturin'sMelmoth the Wanderer (1820)
• Pauline Hopkin'sOf One Blood (1902)
• Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker" (1824)
• G. W. M. Reynolds'Faust: A Romance of the Secret Tribunals andWagner, the Wehr-wolf (both 1847)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" (1835)
• Ivan Turgenev'sFaust (1855)
• Charles Baudelaire'sThe Generous Gambler (1864)
• Louisa May Alcott'sA Modern Mephistopheles (1877)
• Samuel Adams Drake'sJonathan Moulton and the Devil (1884)
• Robert Louis Stevenson'sThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
• Oscar Wilde'sThe Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis'sQuincas Borba (1891)
• Peadar Ua Laoghaire'sSéadna (Written inMunster Irish, serialised in the 1890s)
• Marie Corelli'sThe Sorrows of Satan (1896)
• Alfred Jarry'sExploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, pataphysician (1898)
• Valery Bryusov'sThe Fiery Angel (1908)
• Gaston Leroux'sThe Phantom of the Opera (1909–10)
• Mikhail Bulgakov'sThe Master and Margarita (1929–40)
• Klaus Mann'sMephisto (1936)
• Stephen Vincent Benét'sThe Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)
• Horace L. Gold andL. Sprague de Camp'sNone But Lucifer (1939)
• Thomas Mann'sDoktor Faustus (1947)
• John Myers Myers'sSilverlock (1949)
• Douglass Wallop'sThe Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954)
• William Gaddis'The Recognitions (1955)
• Mack Reynolds' "Burnt Toast" (1955)
• João Guimarães Rosa'sGrande Sertão: Veredas (1956)
• Roger Zelazny'sFor a Breath I Tarry (1966)
• John Hersey'sToo Far to Walk (1966)
• James Blish'sBlack Easter (1968) andThe Day After Judgment (1971)
• Philip K. Dick'sGalactic Pot-Healer (1969)
• Walker Percy'sLove in the Ruins (1971)
• William Hjortsberg'sFalling Angel (1978)
• Robert Nye'sFaust (1980)
• Stephen King'sChristine (1983)
• John Banville'sMefisto (1986)
• Clive Barker'sThe Damnation Game (1986)
• Clive Barker'sThe Hellbound Heart (1986)
• Carl Deuker'sOn the Devil's Court (1989)
• Nelson DeMille'sThe Gold Coast (1990)
• Terry Pratchett'sFaust Eric (1990)
• Alan Judd'sThe Devil's Own Work (1991)
• Roger Zelazny andRobert Sheckley'sIf at Faust You Don't Succeed (1993)
• Kim Newman'sThe Quorum (1994)
• Tom Holt'sFaust Among Equals (1994)
• Sherman Alexie'sReservation Blues (1995)
• Jeanne Kalogridis'sThe Diaries of the Family Dracul's trilogy (1995, 1996, 1997)
• Michael Swanwick'sJack Faust (1997)
• Howard Waldrop's "Heart Of Whitenesse" (1997)
• Timothy Taylor'sStanley Park (2001)
• Maureen Johnson'sDevilish (2006)
• Jonathan L. Howard'sJohannes Cabal the Necromancer (2009)
• David Macinnis Gill'sSoul Enchilada (2009)
• Haruki Murakami'sColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2014), Chapter 5 ponders over a Faustian bargain that is in the spirit of Maturin'sMelmoth the Wanderer.
• Oliver Pötzsch'sThe Master's Apprentice (2018)
• V. E. Schwab'sThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (2020)

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• The Seventh Guest
• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Willard Wyler is based loosely off of the legend of Faust and Mephistopholes)
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone
• Cuphead
• Limbus Company

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