Arthur Berger

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Arthur Berger (May 15, 1912 in New York City –- October 7, 2003 in Boston, Massachusetts) was a composer who has been described as a New Mannerist. He studied as an undergraduate at New York University, during which time he joined the Young Composer's Group, as a graduate student under Walter Piston at Harvard, and with Nadia Boulanger and at the Sorbonne under a Paine Fellowship. He taught briefly at Mills College and Brooklyn College, then worked briefly at the New York Sun and then for a longer period of time at the New York Herald Tribune. In 1953 he left the paper to teach at Brandeis University where he was eventually named the Irving Fine Professor Emeritus. He taught occasionally at the New England Conservatory during his retirement. He co-founded (with Benjamin Boretz), in 1962, Perspectives of New Music, which he edited ubtil 1964. He wrote the first book on Aaron Copland (reprinted 1990, Da Capo Press), and coined the terms octatonic scale and pitch centricity in his "Problems of Pitch Organization in Stravinsky". User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Arthur Berger: The Complete Orchestral Music

Arthur Berger Retrospective

Music of Arthur Berger

The Complete Orchestral Music

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Lieurance Woodwind Quintet

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Berger/Wolpe-FORM

An Arthur Berger Retrospective

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Brandeis Festival Orchestra, Music by Arthur Berger

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Arthur Berger: Words for Music, Perhaps

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Arthur Berger (CRI American Masters)

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CRI American Masters: Arthur Berger

W.W. Naumburg Foundation American Composition Awards (First Recordings)

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