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Oskar Sala was a German composer and, together with Friedrich Trautwein, the inventor and developer of the Trautonium, one of the first electronic musical instruments. As a soloist, he played compositions by Paul Hindemith and Harald Genzmer, among others, on the Trautonium.
Known for
- Oskar Sala: The Former Future of Sound — Self2000
- Hitlers Traum von Micky Maus - Zeichentrick unterm Hakenkreuz — himself1999
- German Film Award — Self1951
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1910-07-18
- Active to
- 2002-02-26
Discography
- Electronics / Five Improvisations on Magnetic Tape
- Electronic Virtuosity1970
- Électronique et stéréophonie: Musique spatiale1972
- Elektronische Impressionen1979
- My Fascinating Instrument1990
- Synthesizer von Gestern Vol. 21992
- Synthesizer von Gestern Vol. 31994
- Trautonium-Konzerte1994
- Subharmonische Mixturen1997
- Subharmonic Mixtures1997
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Oskar Sala (June 18, 1910 - February 26, 2002) was a 20th century German composer and a pioneer of electronic music. He played an instrument called the trautonium, a predecessor to the synthesizer. Sala was a pupil of Friedrich Trautwein, the inventor of the trautonium, and studied with Paul Hindemith in 1930 at the Berlin conservatory. Oskar Sala further developed the trautonium into the Mixtur-Trautonium. The Mixtur-Trautonium allowed for the first <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Oskar+Sala
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Oskar
- Family name
- Sala
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Greiz
- Place of death
- Berlin
- Occupation
- musical instrument maker
- Languages spoken
- German
- Award
- German Film Award
- Student of
- Paul Hindemith
- Genre
- classical music
- Image
- Oskar Sala - 1996 - Photo Peter Pichler.jpg
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- 1910-07-18
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- 2002-02-26
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