It would take years to identify all the references in this masterpiece. Here is compilation of information we collected from various sources (namely the Jan Vonhellemont Annotations and the Middlebury Annotations), but remember that there are always more references!
In the book: financial director of the Variety Theater
Possibly based on Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: a Russian composer and a member of “The Five” (a group of Russian composers who embodied the Romantic nationalist movement)
