Erik Freitag (born 1 February 1940) is an Austrian composer and violinist.
Born in Vienna, Freitag studied violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, with, among others, Eduard Melkus and composition with Karl-Birger Blomdahl at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
[1][2][3] From 1964 to 1967, he was violinist in the Sveriges Radio Symfoniorchester and from 1967 to 1970 in the Stockholms Filharmoniska Orchester.
[4] He then directed the Vienna-Ottakring Music School until 2003.
In 1987, together with Eugene Hartzell [de] and René Staar, he founded the "Ensemble Wiener Collage",[5] which is dedicated to the interpretation of contemporary works, especially by Austrian composers.