Avant-Garde Composer Milton Babbitt Dies at 94

From ABC News:

Composer Milton Babbitt, who was known for his complex orchestral compositions and credited with developing the first electronic synthesizer in the 1950s, died Saturday. He was 94. Paul Lansky, a composer and Princeton University colleague who was once a student of Babbitt’s, told The Associated Press he died Saturday at a Princeton hospital. Lansky said he did not know the cause of death.

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