COMPOSER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Milton Babbitt has received more than 391,683 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 27 in 2019). Milton Babbitt is the 1,230th most popular composer (down from 1,167th in 2019), the 7,586th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,071st in 2019) and the 85th most popular American Composer.

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  • 390k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Milton Babbitt ranks 1,230 out of 1,451. Before him are Alexandre Levy, Nicholas Hooper, Glenn Branca, Miina Härma, Elliot Goldenthal, and Gavriil Popov. After him are Gerald Finzi, Thomas Linley the younger, Frigyes Hidas, Leo Ornstein, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, and Enoch Sontonga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Milton Babbitt ranks 231. Before him are Wolfgang Hildesheimer, José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, Fiorenzo Angelini, Ken Wharton, Frederick C. Weyand, and Charles F. Hockett. After him are Julien Darui, Ken Curtis, Edward Binns, Vicente Ferreira da Silva, Dorothy Cheney, and David Brown. Among people deceased in 2011, Milton Babbitt ranks 342. Before him are Zoltán Berczik, Joe Arroyo, Edmundo Ros, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Garret FitzGerald, and Kiyonori Kikutake. After him are Liviu Ciulei, Walter Giller, Andrija Fuderer, Shrilal Shukla, Jacques Lataste, and Ilmar Kullam.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Milton Babbitt ranks 7,586 out of 20,380. Before him are George J. Mitchell (1933), Arliss Howard (1954), Marsden Hartley (1877), Catherine Hardy Lavender (1930), Christie Brinkley (1954), and Elliot Goldenthal (1954). After him are Katherine Neville (1945), Corey Feldman (1971), Thomas Ligotti (1953), Nancy Kelly (1921), Jerry Hardin (1929), and Alessandro Nivola (1972).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Milton Babbitt ranks 85. Before him are William Bolcom (1938), Peter Schickele (1935), Alan Hovhaness (1911), George Bruns (1914), Glenn Branca (1948), and Elliot Goldenthal (1954). After him are David Diamond (1915), Ferde Grofé (1892), Paul Creston (1906), Rhys Chatham (1952), David Raksin (1912), and Virgil Thomson (1896).

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