John Christian Freund

Biography

Freund was one of the eight children of the editors Jonas Charles Hermann Freund and Amelia Freund. He was born in 1848. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford when he was nineteen years old. In London he founded and edited The Dark Blue and then emigrated to the U.S.A. after the magazine went bankrupt in 1873. In 1873 in New York City, Freund founded the music-specialized newspaper which became the The Musical and Dramatic Times and Music Trade Review.

In 1890, with Milton Weil (1871–1935), he founded The Music Trades.

He died in 1924. His widow died in 1953.