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Milton Babbitt

American composer (1916–2011)

  • Fame56.6
  • Momentum15.0
  • Wikipedia2.4K
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Lived 1916–2011, aged 95United States
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  • Era
    1916–2011
    Aged 95
  • Known for
    The Alchemists of Sound
    2003
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Updated 2026-06-10

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.

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