BERGMAN, ERIK (, Uusikaarlepyy), retired professor at the Sibelius Academy, a composer who has run through the full spectrum of techniques from the truly Romantic, serialism, a preoccupation with color, improvisation, spoken sound effects, and aleatory.
Bergman studied musicology with Ilmari Krohn at the University of Helsinki from 1931 to 1933 and composition and piano at the Helsinki Conservatory from 1931 to 1938. Further study took him to Berlin from 1937 to 1939, to...