Erickson, Robert

As a child Erickson learned to play the piano and violin, and he began to compose in his early teens. He studied with Wesley La Violette at the Chicago Conservatory. From 1938 to 1948 he took composition lessons from Ernst Krenek at Hamline University, St. Paul (B.A., 1943; M.A., 1947). He was also a pupil of Roger Sessions at the University of California, Berkeley (1950). Erickson taught at St. Catherine College, St. Paul, Minnesota (1947–53), San Francisco State...