# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/milton-babbitt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:14:20.532Z

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name: "Milton Babbitt"
slug: "milton-babbitt"
description: "Milton Byron Babbitt was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher. He was a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship recipient, recognized for his serial and electronic music. Babbitt's compositional approach was deeply inspired by Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique. He built a compositional system based on permutations of the total chromatic."
tagline: "American composer (1916–2011)"
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birthDate: "1916-05-10"
deathDate: "2011-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump