A lively, economically-written account of one of the world’s greatest string quartets: how they met, their lives within and without the quartet, their approach to music making, and the myriad things that can go wrong, either onstage or in the recording booth. The wonderfully named Snowmqn captures the Amadeus boys in all their flawed and all-too-human glory. In a perfect world, all books on classical music would be this passionate, this readable, this committed to their subject.