The Lost Stradivarius (1895), by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case an extremel...
In Franz Grillparzer's novella, *Der arme Spielmann*, a nameless old violinist becomes a symbol of lost potential and the harsh realities of life. The...
He'd Nothing but His Violin is a classic poem by Mary Kyle Dallas that tells the story of a traveling musician and his wife. The musician has nothing...
The Violinist is a poem by Margaret Steele Anderson, a Southern art critic, taken from her only collection of verse, *The Flame in the Wind* (1914). T...
