Posterity should be grateful to Babbitt for his resolute idealism, which he never compromised. Milton Byron Babbitt, composer and teacher: born Philadelphia 10 May 1916; Professor of Music ...

He’s even more certain that most of the audience isn’t familiar with the work of MacArthur-winning composer and Jackson native Milton Babbitt. The crux of Mississippi’s proclamation to be ...

Milton Babbitt, a famed composer and Princeton University music professor whose mathematical expertise guided his creation of complex, modernist soundscapes that influenced generations of artists and ...

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.

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.

Part of the development of this music stemmed from Babbitt's own fascinations with math and music theory, leading to the development of a particular use of the 12-tone scale in music. This idea ...

Milton Babbitt, a composer who used his knack for mathematics to create a modern musical language that was elegantly complex, fearlessly dissonant and so dense that even critics sometimes ...

Milton Babbitt, who wrote some of the most challenging, determinedly serial music of the past 100 years, died Saturday at the age of 94 in Princeton, N.J. Like Elliott Carter (still going strong ...

See About archive blog posts. Composer Milton Babbitt, who was known for his complex orchestral compositions and credited with developing the first electronic synthesizer in the 1950s, died Saturday.