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Frederick and Alice Slee: Musical Benefactors Curated by John Bewley |
Alice Slee, March, 1908
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Frederick Caldecott Slee was born September 25, 1870 in Skaneateles, N.Y. He earned his undergraduate and
law degrees at Harvard University and was admitted to the bar in 1897. Mr. Slee returned to Buffalo and
had a very successful career as a corporate lawyer. He married Alice MacDonald in 1905. Mrs. Slee was born
August 20, 1875 in East Aurora, N.Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Slee were great admirers of chamber music and built a music room in their house at 59 Saybrook Place to accommodate the many chamber music performances they hosted. Frederick Slee was a trained, amateur musician who studied music at Harvard, in New York City, and in Paris. He played as violist in a string quartet that he formed to perform locally in Buffalo and composed more than three dozen works. |
Frederick Caldecott Slee, 1910
Photograph by Nussbaum. |
Alice Slee, 1908 |
Charles Augustus (Gus) Collins and Frederick Slee |
Frederick Slee in car |
Frederick Caldecott Slee died May 19, 1954 and Alice Slee followed two years later to the day, May 19, 1956. (Click on the images below to read the entire obituaries for Frederick and Alice Slee as they were printed in the Buffalo Evening News).
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| October 2005 Music Library Staff musique@acsu.buffalo.edu http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/music/exhibits/slee/index.html |
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