[Princeton music professor Milton] Babbitt, whose father and brother were mathematicians, also taught in the mathematics department at Princeton during World War II. While his mathematical approach was a signature of his own compositions, as a teacher he embraced a wide range of subject matter, focusing on areas such as jazz and popular music, in addition to abstract modern compositions.
The composer Milton Babbitt has died, at 94. Princeton’s long review of his life describes a man of immense intellectual and artistic range.