Biography & Autobiography
My Musical Life
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Walter Damrosch
This is the autobiography of the Prussian-born American conductor Walter Damrosch. It includes dozens of anecdotes about many of the great m…
Borden of Yale '09: "The Life that Counts"
Read by AletheiaCharis
Mrs. Howard Taylor
Borden of Yale '09 is the inspiring biography of William Borden, a young American millionaire. During a trip around the world, Borden commit…
Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 2
Read by Jim Locke
William Cabell Bruce
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…
Recollections of Johannes Brahms
Read by mkirkpat
Albert Hermann Dietrich and Joseph Victor Widmann
Albert Dietrich, the German composer and conductor, was a friend of Johannes Brahms and the first part of this book includes vivid recollect…
The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Lydia Hoyt Farmer
The aim of this book is to give in as concise manner as possible, consistent with graphic narration and biographical completeness, the most …
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, Vol III
Read by PhyllisV
Lady Hester Stanhope
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in Conversation with her Physician, comprising her opinions and anecdotes of some…
Story-Lives of Great Musicians
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Francis Jameson Rowbotham
Following the plan of his previous volume of Great Authors, the writer has here endeavoured to weave into more or less story form a few of t…
Letters from Great Musicians to Young People
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Anna Alice Chapin and Alethea Crawford Cox
The object of this little book is to bring the reader nearer to the great masters in the realm of music, and make him or her acquainted with…