Oskar Sala (July 18, 1910 – February 26, 2002) was a German composer and pioneer of electronic music. He plays an instrument called the Trutonium, an early form of electronic synthesizer.
Early life
Sala was born in Gress, Thuringia, Germany. He studied piano and organ in his youth and performed classical piano concerts as a teenager. In 1929, he moved to Berlin to study piano and composition with the composer and violinist Paul Hindu Myth of the Berlin Conservatory. He is also Dr. in the school lab. Friedrich followed Troutin's experiments, where he learned to play Trautonium, Trouton's pioneering electronic instrument.
On June 20, 1930, Sala and Paul Hindemith gave a public presentation at the Musikhochschule in Berlin entitled "New Music Berlin 1930" for Trautonium. Sala later traveled to Germany with trautonium; In 1931 he was the soloist in the Hindi Smith concert performance of Tritium with the String Quartet. He made his solo debut in Hindemith's student Harald Genzmeier's "Concerto for Trautonium and Orchestra".
Salah studied physics at the University of Berlin between 1932 and 1935. He helped create the "vox trutonium", [4] a trutonium that Telefunken hoped to publish. In 1935 he developed the "Radio Trotonium" and in 1938 a portable model, the "Trautonium Concert".
Oscar Sala was a Nazi soldier. He was on the Eastern Front during World War II, where he was wounded.
Mixtur-Trautonium Mixtur-
Trautonium, 1952
In 1948, Sala developed Trautonium into Mixtur-Trautonium. Sala's innovation opens up the field of sub-phonology, the symmetric analogue of tone, to create a completely distinct tone.
Sala introduced his new instrument to the public in 1952 and soon received an international license for his circuit. In the same year, Harald Genzmer provided the score for the Mixture-Trutonium and the first concerto of the Grand Orchestra.
In the 1950s, Sala also created the Quartet-Trutonium.
Film work
In the forties and fifties of the last century, he worked on many movie tracks. In 1958, he established his studio at Mars Film GmbH (fourth incarnation) in Berlin. It was there that he created electronic soundtracks for films such as Veit Harlan's Different from You and Me (1957), Rolf Thiele's Rosemary (1959), and Fritz Lang's Das Indische Grabmal (1959).
He composed the non-musical soundtrack for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. He has received many awards for his film scores, but he has never won an Academy Award. He also did a lot of work in German advertising, notably one referred to as HB's Little Man.
He was an honorary senator of Berlin.
Legacy
On July 18, 2022, Google celebrated its 112th birthday with a Google Doodle.
Trautonium-
concert
discography (Wergo WER 286266-2)
Harald Genzmer Konzert für Trautonium und Orchester (Concerto of Trautonium and Orchestra) (1938/39) and Konzert für Mixturtrautonium und the großost Orchestern
and
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1938-2019 in his own works, 1955 to 1989dating to
Subharmonische Mixturen
(Erdenklang 70962)
including Paul Hindemith's Langsung stock fur orchestra and rondo fur trautonium (slow piece for orchestra, 1995 music from trackstra and rondonium), Der Würger von Schloss Dartmore (The Stranger of Castle Dartmoor)
Elektronische Impressionen
(Telefunken 6.40023 AP)
Hindemiths 7 Triostücke für drei Trautonien (7 triple pieces for 3 Trautonien), Konzertstücke für drei Trautonien. Sala Elektronische Impressionen (Electronic Impressions), 1978.
Resonanzen
(1970, reissue 1994, origina lton West OW027)
includes Suite für Mixtur-Trautonium und elektronisches Schlagwerk and Resonanzen: Konzertante Musik für Mixtur-Trautonium und Elektronisches Orchester.
Literature
Peter Dunnhauser (2007). Electric Clang Machining. Bohlo Vienna (in Germany).
Peter Badge (2000). Oscar Sala: Pioneer of Electronic Music. Satzwerk, 100pp. ISBN 3-930333-34-1
Pablo Freire / Audionautas (2011/2012). Oscar Sala. Timo Artisano. Parts 1234 (in Spanish)
See also
Raymond Scott, American equivalent, and his early electronic device Electron.
Reference
"Oscar Sala - Biography". intuitive music. August 16, 2003. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved June 19, 2010.
^ Hiller, Juergen (2001–2003). Oscar Sala. Retrieved 19 June 2010.
"Carl Schorchot" last FM. 21 November 2008. Retrieved 19 June 2010.
"Trautonium Ela T 42 T42 "Volks Trautonium"" (in German). Radiomuseum.org. Retrieved 19 June 2010.
^ Rainier, Chris. "Trautonium". myspace.com. Retrieved 19 June 2010.
"Remember the scientist and musician Oscar Sala" Island. 18 July 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
Editorial staff at Doepfer Musikelektronik. "Doepfer Musikelektronik GMBH The Trautonium Project". Analog Organization. Archived from the original on 4 September 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2010
. A detailed technical look at Trautonium.
Namlock, Peter (2002). Oscar Sala 1910-2002. Archived from the original on 22 November 2010. Retrieved 19 June 2010.
Pinch, Trevor; Trucco, Frank (2004). Give Analogue: The Invention and Influence of the Moog Author. Harvard University Press. s 54. ISBN 0-674-01617-3.
"Google Celebrates Physicist and Electronic Music Composer Oscar Sala's 112th Birthday". India Times. 18 July 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
External link
"Legacy of Oscar Sala". German Museum. Retrieved July 18, 2022 – via Google Arts & Culture.
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