Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection

5 best books like Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection (Toby Faber): Paris Letters, The Trial of Lizzie Borden, Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony, The Great Pianists, The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop

Paris Letters

Author	Janice Macleod
ISBN	1402288794

“How much money does it take to change your life?”

Unfulfilled at her job and unsuccessful in the dating department, Janice MacLeod doodled this question at her desk. Then she decided to make it a challenge.

Over the next few months, with a little math and a lot of determination,...

The Trial of Lizzie Borden

Author	Cara Robertson
ISBN	1501168371

When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August of 1892, the arrest of the couple’s daughter Lizzie turned the case into international news and her trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history. Reporters flocked to the scene. Well-known...

Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony

Author	Arnold Steinhardt
ISBN	0374527008

The Guarneri Quartet is fabled for its unique longevity and high-spirited virtuosity. Here is its story from the inside--a story filled with drama, humor, danger, compassion, and, of course, glorious music.

A player who studies and performs the exalted string-quartet repertoire has opted...

The Great Pianists

Author	Harold C. Schonberg
ISBN	0671638378

From Mozart’s fabulous legato that “flowed like oil” to Beethoven’s oceanlike surge, from Clara Schumann’s touch “sharp as a pencil sketch” to Rubinstein’s volcanic and sensual playing, The Great Pianists brings to life the brilliant, stylish, and sometimes eccentric personalities,...

The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop

Author	John Marchese
ISBN	0060012676

How does a simple piece of wood become a violin, the king of instruments? Watch and find out as Eugene Drucker, a member of the world–renowned Emerson String Quartet, commissions Sam Zygmuntowicz, a Brooklyn craftsman, to make him a new violin. As he tells this extraordinary story, journalist John...