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Milton Babbitt

1916 - 2011

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Milton Babbitt is the 1,240th most popular composer (down from 1,230th in 2019), the 8,193rd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,584th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Milton Babbitt ranks 1,240 out of 1,451. Before him are Tofig Guliyev, Granville Bantock, Alfrēds Kalniņš, Boris Tishchenko, Cecilia Seghizzi, and Thomas Campion. After him are Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Cachao, Hilding Rosenberg, Ivor Novello, Emil Hartmann, and William Schuman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Milton Babbitt ranks 241. Before him are Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, Yvon Petra, David Douglas Duncan, Karen Lachmann, Helene Hanff, and Ondina Valla. After him are Karl-Birger Blomdahl, David Brown, Lennart Klingström, Toni Branca, Roy Ward Baker, and Dorothy Cheney. Among people deceased in 2011, Milton Babbitt ranks 344. Before him are Maurice Goldhaber, Nasser Hejazi, Gilbert Adair, Célestin Oliver, Wenche Foss, and Bhimsen Joshi. After him are Kjell Johansson, Ragnar Lundberg, Kiyonori Kikutake, Yrjö Hietanen, Per Berlin, and Aloysius Ambrozic.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Milton Babbitt ranks 8,195 out of 20,380. Before him are Steve Allen (1921), Burt Ward (1945), Bebe Daniels (1901), Miguel A. Núñez Jr. (1964), Elizabeth Hawley (1923), and Rob Van Dam (1970). After him are William S. Hart (1864), Oscar Osthoff (1883), Tony Carey (1953), Kevin Garnett (1976), Billy Gilbert (1894), and Laura Innes (1957).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Milton Babbitt ranks 82. Before him are Brad Fiedel (1951), Elliot Goldenthal (1954), Glenn Branca (1948), Leonard Slatkin (1944), Frank Churchill (1901), and David Diamond (1915). After him are William Schuman (1910), Leigh Harline (1907), Mark Snow (1946), Virgil Thomson (1896), Marco Beltrami (1966), and H. C. Robbins Landon (1926).

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