📚 The Violin

The instrument and its makers: Amati and Stradivari workshops, the playing methods, and the players’ biographies.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject violin in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The physical geography of the sea	Matthew Fontaine Maury	1855	16
	Die Violine und ihre Meister	Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski	1869	11
	The Violin Maker	John Marchese	2007	11
	Cremona	Friedrich Niederheitmann	1884	10
	The art of violin playing	Carl Flesch	1924	10
	Geigen und Geiger	Franz Farga	1940	10
	The Repairing and Restoration of Violins	Horace Petherick	1903	9
	The violin-makers of the Guarneri family (1626-1762)	William Henry Hill	1931	9
	Violin for dummies	Katharine Rapoport	2009	9
	How to make a violin	John Broadhouse	1892	8
	The heart of music	Anna Alice Chapin	1906	8
	Masterpieces of the Great Violin Makers	Rudolph Wurlitzer Company.	1917	8
	Violin playing as I teach it	Auer, Leopold	1921	8
	An encyclopedia of the violin	Alberto Bachmann	1925	7
	Violin	Yehudi Menuhin	1971	7
	The Violin	Mark Katz	2006	7
	Violin varnish and how to make it	Georges Foucher	1911	6
	Violin tone and violin makers ..	Moya, Hidalgo	1916	6
	Principles of violin playing & teaching	Ivan Galamian	1962	6
	Violin-Making	Edward Heron-Allen	2005	6
	Old violins	H. R. Haweis	1898	5
	Violine, ihre Geschichte und ihr Bau	Hyacinth Abele	1905	5
	Violin and Old Violin Makers	A. Mason Clarke	1909	5
	The simplicity of playing the violin	Herbert Whone	1972	5
	They're rarely too young--and never too old to "twinkle"	Kay Collier Slone	1982	5
	Violin-making, as it was and is	Edward Heron-Allen	1885	4
	The violin & its story	Hyacinth Abele	1905	4
	Die Geigen und Lautenmacher vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart	Lütgendorff, Willibald Leo Freiherr von	1922	4
	Die Kunst des Violinspiels	Carl Flesch	1923	4
	Motion study and violin bowing	Percival Hodgson	1934	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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