American composer and music critic.

Berger studied at New York University, Harvard University with Walter Piston, then at the Sorbonne with Nadia Boulanger. He subsequently taught at Mills College, California, Brooklyn College CUNY, the Juilliard School of Music, from 1953 Brandeis University, and after 1980 at the New England Conservatory of Music. He served as music critic for the Boston Transcript (1934‒37), New York Sun (1943‒46) and the New York Herald Tribune (1946‒53), and contributed articles to many other newspapers and magazines. With Benjamin Boretz, he cofounded Perspectives of New Music in 1962 and served as its first editor. His compositions, which initially showed the influence of Stravinsky but later employed the twelve-tone method, include works for the stage, orchestra, chamber music and solo works.

Berger audited Hans Weisse's "Seminar in the Structure of Music" in the early 1930s at Columbia University.

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