Milton Babbitt (1916-2011)

Trained first as a mathematician, the American composer Milton Babbitt was a private composition pupil of Roger Sessions at Princeton, where he held a position as professor of music. He exercised a strong influence over younger American composers, teaching at the Juilliard School in New York and participating in the summer courses at Darmstadt.

Music

Babbitt was influenced by Schoenberg, adopting and developing serial techniques and going on to make use of electro-acoustic devices.