Robert Erickson

Robert Erickson (1917-1997) was an American composer and teacher, born in Marquette, Michigan, who spent most of his working life in California. He studied with Ernst Krenek at Hamline University, used serial and atonal writing in his early works, moved into tape and experimental pieces, and later returned to purely instrumental music. From 1967 he taught at the University of California, San Diego. Erickson taught at the San Francisco Conservatory from 1957 to 1966 and wrote two books, The Structure of Music and Sound Structure in Music (1975).