Milton Byron Babbitt was born May 10, 1916, in Philadelphia. He grew up in Jackson, Miss., where one of his childhood friends was novelist Eudora Welty, whose family lived a few doors down.

Milton Byron Babbitt, composer and teacher: born Philadelphia 10 May 1916; Professor of Music, Princeton University 1966-84; Pulitzer Prize for Music 1982; married 1939 Sylvia Miller ...

Milton Byron Babbitt was born in Philadelphia on May 10 1916, the son of a wealthy actuary who demonstrated to his son the deep pleasure of mathematics. He grew up in Jackson, ...

Milton Babbitt, known for his complex orchestral compositions, was a consultant to RCA as it was developing the Mark II synthesizer in the 1950s. He taught at Princeton University for many years.

Mississippian Milton Babbitt was one of the first composers to embrace electronic music, 20 years before Kraftwerk. News Sports Business Entertainment Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.

Milton Babbitt, an influential composer, theorist and teacher who wrote music that was intensely rational and for many listeners impenetrably abstruse, died on Saturday. He was 94 and lived in ...

This year Milton Babbitt celebrates his 90th birthday. Few 20th-century American composers have been as vital, productive, combative, and controversial. Babbitt has succeeded in achieving ...

Milton Babbitt, who died on January 29 at 94, produced some of his best-known music electronically, using the gargantuan, rudimentary computers of punch-card antiquity. Since there is no action ...

Milton Babbitt, an avant-garde composer who pioneered some of the most influential compositional techniques of the 20th century and was also one of its leading music professors, died Saturday in ...

The American composer and teacher Milton Babbitt died Saturday, Jan. 29 at age 94. For years, New York-based journalist and filmmaker Robert Hilferty had been constructing a documentary on Babbitt.

In the past century, there was one composer who, contrary to many of the standards of the mainstream, believed that music shouldn't always be easy listening; he was a composer who eventually ...