Isadore Freed

Isadore Freed (1900–1960) was a Jewish-American composer, arranger and music educator. Born in Brest-Litovsk (now Belarus), Freed immigrated to the United States with his family at the age of three. From 1928 to 1933, Isadore Freed studied composition in Paris with Ernest Bloch, Vincent d'Indy, Nadia Boulanger, and Louis Vierne. He returned to the United States in 1934 and established the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra And Composers' Laboratory. Active as an educator, Isadore Freed joined the music faculty at Temple University in 1937 and became head of the Composition Department at the Hartt School in 1944.