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Also known as Milton Byron Babbitt

American composer (1916–2011)

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Milton Babbitt was an American person born in 1916 and died in 2011. He is recognized in the Pulitzer Prize collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the Macarthur Fellows collection. His notable works include *The function of set structure in the twelve-tone system*, *A life of learning*, *Three compositions for piano*, *Quatrains*, and *Woodwind quartet*.

He is associated with contemporary classical, experimental, Avant-Garde, Classical, and american tags. His music has been played 85281 times by 18935 listeners. Babbitt is referenced by 564 other encyclopedia articles. He has a work count of 35 in the Open Library and 5 works in Crossref.

Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1916
Works
35

Top works

  • The function of set structure in the twelve-tone system
  • A life of learning
  • Three compositions for piano
  • Quatrains
  • Woodwind quartet

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1916-05-10
Active to
2011-01-29

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
18,935
Total plays
85,281

Tags

contemporary classicalexperimentalAvant-GardeClassicalamerican

Composer Milton Babbitt's influence on contemporary music is inestimable. His innovative use of the human voice, his infusions of electronic tape sounds into live performances, his serial compositional techniques and pioneering work in synthesized sound, all broke new ground in the music world. His compositions, with their twelve-tone structures, complex mathematical tonal combinations, and synthetic sounds, offered up with Babbitt's cerebral explanations, evince serious purpose, energy, and wit

via Last.fm · Milton Babbitt

Quotes

  • This compositional variety is mediated by a highly redundant set structure, a second-order all-combinatorial set; each set form is hexachordally equivalent to or totally disjunct from fifteen other set forms, so that one-third of all the available set forms belong to a collection of sets which are hexachordally aggregate forming, that is, hexachordally identical.

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Milton
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Philadelphia
Place of death
Princeton
Languages spoken
English language
Student of
Philip James
Record label
Nonesuch Records
Residence
Jackson
Show 4 more facts
date of birth
1916-05-10
date of death
2011-01-29
place of burial
Princeton
Sources (6)

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