Music Collection has collected music novels for your leisure reading, which feature interesting stories about music and musicians. You’ll see how writers portray lives of musicians in social and cultural contexts. You may be surprised some of your favorite music, mentioned in novels, could have an impact on one’s life. Or you may wish to know musicians’ personal struggles behind a glorious stage.
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 Library » Music 815.1 P968 C3 a1
Beethoven’s Hair (2000): a story to uncover why Beethoven was deaf
Russell Martin
Music Library » 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 Library » Music 829.1 G174 C3 c
Cry to Heaven (1995): the castrati of the 17th and 18th centuries in Italy
Anne Rice
Music Library » 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 Library » 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 Library » 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 Library » 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 Library » 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 Library » 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 Library » 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 Library » Music 815.1 Q6 C3 v