Erich Marckhl (3 February 1902 in Celje – 8 July 1980 in Graz) was an Austrian musicologist and composer.
From 1926 to 1936 he worked as an educator at the Bundes-Erziehungsanstalt Wien XIII, formerly a cadet school, but was dismissed for political reasons (membership in the illegal NSDAP ).
[3] Due to his National Socialist past, he initially remained unemployed in 1945 and lived with the support of the Gottfried von Einem family in Ramsau am Dachstein (1945/46) and in Plomberg am Mondsee (1946–48).
In 1948, Marckhl was given the newly established small seminar for music education at the Johann Joseph Fux Conservatory in Graz .
In 1963, Marckhl, became the President of University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in addition to that of being a professor.