Aarau

He stored them in the cavernous depot he had built under his castle at Brestenberg, near the Swiss city of Aarau.

Stepping in close, I found a few little black marks left in the soft metal by the compressed sand in which the cube had been molded in Aarau, Switzerland.

Last summer, while attending the Lucerne Festival, I paid a visit to Frey in Aarau and spoke to him about his life and music.

The composer Jürg Frey, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music, has spent almost his entire life in the vicinity of the Swiss town of Aarau, about thirty miles west of Zurich.

Until a few years ago, he had a day job teaching clarinet to children at the Aarau Music School.