Milton Babbitt
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Milton Byron Babbitt 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. B
Babbitt with the RCA Mark II synthesizer
The RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer was the first programmable electronic music synthesizer. Designed by engineers Herbert Belar and Harry F. Olson at RCA with contributions from Peter Mauzey and compos
Milton Babbitt
…to be writing music for very long". Around 1960, Babbitt became interested in electronic music. RCA hired him as consultant composer to work with its RCA Mark II Synthesizer at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in Manhattan. In 1960, Babbitt was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition. In 1961, he…
RCA Mark II
Close-up of the synthesizer
The synthesizer in 2007