Adrienne Fried Block, a musicologist (Ph.D. City University of New York), was Adjunct Professor of Music and Co-Director of the research project “Music in Gotham: The New York Scene 1862–1875” at the Graduate Center/CUNY, a documented history of music in performance. She taught, lectured and published articles on women in American music, including two prize-winning books, Women In American Music: A Bibliography of Music and Literature (with Carol Neuls-Bates) and Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Works of an American Composer.

Adrienne Fried Block died on April 5, 2009. The Fall 2009 issue of American Music Review is devoted to remembrances of her by colleagues.