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Adolf Frey (composer)
Adolf
Frey
was an American
composer
of
German
birth
.
Born
in
Landau
, he was a
pupil
of
Johannes Brahms
,
Immanuel Faiszt
, and
Clara Schumann
. From 1887-1893 he was a
musician
to
Prince Alexander Frederick of Hesse
. He then moved to the
United States
, where he began
teaching
on the
faculty
of
Syracuse University
in
the Fall
of
1893
.