If you hop over to:

   http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5197
   http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5144

you will find volume 1 and 2 of the newly translated (into English) "My
Life" by Richard Wagner, available at Gutenberg for free.

There are many other free books relating to music online.

For instance:
The Life of Chopin
by Franz Liszt (translated into English)

ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext03/lfcpn10.txt

For a list of some of the available free online publications see:

   http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?M

and follow the links.

Mimi Ezust