Q: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
This novel's protagonist creates such compositions as Marvels of the Universe and an operatic adaptation of Love's Labor's Lost. That man studies the piano with Wendell Kretschmar and takes theology classes under Ehrenfried Kumpf and Eberhard Schleppfuss. Rdiger Schildknapp is forced to perform the hackwork of translation, and the name Heraeta Esmeralda describes both a butterfly and a syphilis-ridden prostitute in Serenus Zeitblom's narration. FTP, name this novel about Adrian Leverkhn, who trades his soul for twenty-four years of musical talent, written by Thomas Mann.
A:
Literature