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Joshua Kosman April 21, 2021Updated: April 21, 2021, 7:26 pm Wayne Peterson’s compositions showed a range of musical influences. Photo: Courtesy Grant Peterson For more than 30 years, composer and pianist Wayne Peterson taught music students at San Francisco State University. He was a fixture on the local new-music scene, reliably present at any concert where contemporary works were being performed. He composed prolifically, in an eclectic, often accessible style. Then he got an awkward call from the Pulitzer Prize committee, and things were never the same again. Peterson, who died on April 7 at his San Francisco home, won the Pulitzer for music amid a controversy over the rules and procedures of the prize an honor that often threatened to overshadow the rest of his creative achievement.

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