Accordion Crimes (1996): the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the descendants of Mexicans, Poles, etc …, all linked by their successive ownership of a green accordion
Annie Proulx
Music 815.1 P968 C3 a1
Beethoven’s Hair (2000): a story to uncover why Beethoven was deaf
Russell Martin
Music 780.92 B41 m
Clara: A Novel (2004): love and romance of Clara Schumann, a celebrated pianist, and Robert Schumann, a well-known composer of the nineteenth century
Janice Galloway
Music 829.1 G174 C3 c
Cry to Heaven (1995): the castrati of the 17th and 18th centuries in Italy
Anne Rice
Music 815.1 R495 C3 c9
Hilary and Jackie (1998): a story of the famous cellist Jacqueline du Pré (1945-1987) unfolded by her older sister Hilary and younger brother Piers
Hilary du Pré and Piers du Pré
Music 787.4092 D942 h64
Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in pursuit of harmony (2000): written by the first violinist of the Guarneri Quartet, an American string quartet founded in 1964
Arnold Steinhardt
Music 785.7194 G91 S82
Listening to Brahms (2013): A love story begins when Brahms’ Rhapsody No 2 in G Minor was played
Rosemary Allen
Music 829.1 A428 C3 l7
Schubert: Twelve Moments Musicaux and a Novel (1995): reading the life of Franz Schubert (1797-1828) in a lyrical biographical novel
Peter Härtling
Music 833.914 H332 s38
Sight Reading: A Novel (2013): a love story involved a family of gifted violinist and a Scottish composer-conductor from Europe to America
Daphne Kalotay
Music 815.1 K143 C3 s
Trio: A Novel about the Schumanns and Brahms (2004): “There was no understanding Brahms without understanding his relationship with Clara (with whom he fell in love) and Robert (who became his mentor)”
Boman Desai
Music 829.9541 D44 C3 t
Vivaldi’s Virgins: A Novel (2008): Through an abandoned child Anna Maria’s quest to unveil her identity, the study under Antonio Vivaldi and musical life of eighteenth-century Venice is shown
Barbara Quick
Music 815.1 Q6 C3 v