Alfred Drffel was a German pianist, music publisher and librarian.
Drffel was born in Waldenburg, Saxony, the son of August Friedrich Drffel and his wife Christiane Charlotte, ne Krhne. He received his first musical training by the Waldenburg organist Johann Adolf Trube. He later studied in Leipzig with Gottfried Wilhelm Fink, Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann.
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