Person · Male
Milton Babbitt
American composer
- From
- Philadelphia, United States
- Active
- 1916–2011
- Releases
- 15
About
Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) 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.
Discography
Albums
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Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
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New Electronic Music From Leaders of the Avant-Garde
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Babbitt: Quartet no. 3 / Wuorinen: String Quartet
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Piano Works
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An Elizabethan Sextette / Minute Waltz (or) ¾ ± ⅛ / Partitions / It Takes Twelve to Tango / Playing for Time / About Time / Groupwise / Vision and Prayer
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Carter: Variations for Orchestra / Schuller: Spectra / Babbitt: Correspondences / Cage: Atlas Eclipticalis
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Philomel
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Occasional Variations
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Quatrains / Soli e duettini / Manifold Music / My Ends Are My Beginnings / Swan Song no. 1
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Soli e Duettini
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Clarinet Quintets
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Concerto For Piano and Orchestra / The Head of the Bed
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The Flow of Music: Piano Works of Carter & Babbitt
Links
Listen
Concerts
Teacher
- David Lewin
- Peter Huse
- Martin Kennedy
- Kenneth Fuchs
- Markand Thakar
- Lera Auerbach
- Philip Batstone
- Joel Gressel
- Thomas E. Barker
- Nathan Shields
- Kati Agócs
- Jeff Nichols
- Peter Westergaard
- George Edwards
- Roger Sessions
- Diane Thome
- Donald Martino
- Judith Shatin
- Peter Lieberson
- David Ward-Steinman
- Stephen Sondheim
- Frederic Rzewski
- Stanley Jordan
- Michael Dellaira
- Paul Lansky
- Laura Karpman
- Bruce Adolphe
- Marion Bauer
- Philip James
Tags
- composer
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- a2f55101-feec-44a5-a468-408b1f673c2e
- ISNI
- 0000000121321944
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 12 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.