Luxury [in Memoriam] Babbitt, Milton. (1916 - 2011) Autograph Musical Quotation, "string Quartet No. 2." For Home [wjtpOed0]

Detailed AMQS from the composer's second String Quartet, accomplished and signed in black ink on a large sheet of music manuscript paper. 21 x 30 cm. In fine condition.



Shortly after the composition of this work, Babbitt achieved unsought notoriety from a 1958 article in the popular magazine High Fidelity. His title for the article, "The Composer as Specialist," was changed - without his knowledge or consent - to "Who Cares if You Listen?" More than 30 years later, he commented that, because of that "offensively vulgar title", he was "still ... far more likely to be known as the author of 'Who Cares if You Listen?' than as the composer of music to which you may or may not care to listen."