Editing Arthur Berger (composer) (section)

==Biography==
Born in [[New York City]], of Jewish descent,<ref>Robert Morse Crunden (2000). ''Body & Soul: The Making of American Modernism'', p.42-3. {{ISBN|978-0-465-01484-2}}.</ref> Berger 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 [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] under a [[Paine Fellowship]].

He taught briefly at [[Mills College]] and [[Brooklyn College]], then worked briefly at  the ''[[New York Sun (historical)|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. His notable students there included [[Gustav Ciamaga]] and [[Richard Wernick]]. 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 until 1964. He was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1971.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=June 16, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110725002054/http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf| archive-date= 25 July 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref> 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". He died in [[Boston]], Massachusetts, age 91.