Milton Babbitt Biography

Milton Babbitt biography

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NAME: Milton Babbitt
OCCUPATION: Educator, Songwriter
BIRTH DATE: May 10, 1916
DEATH DATE: January 29, 2011
EDUCATION: Princeton University
PLACE OF BIRTH: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
PLACE OF DEATH: Princeton, New Jersey

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Milton Babbitt is an avant-garde composer and was one of the first Americans to write electronically synthesized music.

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Milton Babbitt was on born May 10, 1916 in Philadelphia, Pa. He studied with Roger Sessions at Princeton and later joined the faculty. Babbitt was one of the first U.S. 12-tone composers, one of the first to write totally serialized music, and also one of the first Americans to write electronically synthesized music. He died in 2011.