He was born in San Secondo Parmense, and studied at the Parma Conservatory, where he learnt composition from Guido Alberto Fano.

[3] Frazzi composed symphonic, choral and chamber music, and a number of operas.

Frazzi destroyed the score of his opera L’ottava moglie di Barbablù ("Bluebeard's eighth wife") after its première at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence in January 1940; the work is unpublished.

[5][6] Frazzi's compositional style is characterised by extensive use of the octatonic scale of alternating tones and semitones.

His I vari sistemi del linguaggio musicale, "the various systems of musical language", treats of the same subject.