Free Artists Audiobooks

For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived...

A series of biographical lectures originally published in 1850. Each chapter is a philosophical treatment of the life of an intellectual. The six representatives are Plato, Swedenborg, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Napolean and Goethe.

Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian-born artist, was one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting.

A selection of Beethoven's letters from the compilation by Dr. Ludwig Nohl and translated by Lady Grace Wallace.

”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely unfitted to write about women who are novelists.”

A veteran TV script writer takes us on a side-splitting journey with the "Bob Hope Show" -- fascinating and hilarious backstage memories from his 17 years on the road with Hope.

Rodin has pronounced Rilke's essay the supreme interpretation of his work.

An analysis of Johann Sebastian Bach's life and musical compositions, and of the artistic, philosophical, and religious world in which he acted.

A biography of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin and a critical analysis of his work by American music writer and critic James Huneker.

Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written.