about a man who sells his soul to the devil was subsequently adapted by composers  Hector Berlioz for La Damnation de Faust (1846), Charles Gounod for Faust (1859), Arrigo Boito for Mefistofele (1868), Ferruccio Busoni for Doktor Faust  ((1925), and Sergei Prokofiev for The Fiery Angel (1927). Playwrights ranging from Heinrich Heine