Oskar Sala: who was he and why did Google honor him in his doodle.
This July 18, Google decided to honor the German composer Oskar Sala in its doodle , who left an important legacy as he was the pioneer of electronic music in the 20th century . The German, who would have turned 112 today, played an instrument called a trautonium , a predecessor of the synthesizer.
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| Oskar Sala was an innovative physicist and composer of electronic music. Renowned for producing sound effects on trautonium |
Oskar Sala was an innovative physicist and composer of electronic music. Renowned for producing sound effects on trautonium, the German electrified the world of television, radio, and film.
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Sala was born in Greiz, Germany, on July 18, 1910 and was immersed in music from birth. His mother was a singer and his father was an ophthalmologist with musical talent. At the age of 14 he began to create compositions and songs for instruments such as violin and piano.
When Sala first heard the trautonium he was fascinated by the tonal possibilities and the technology offered by the instrument. His life mission became to master and further develop it, which inspired his studies in physics and composition at school.
This new approach led Sala to develop his own instrument called a trautonium-mix. With his education as a composer and electronic engineer, he created electronic music that set his style apart from others. The architecture of the mix-trautonium is so unique that he was capable of playing several sounds or voices simultaneously.
Sala received several awards for his work. In 1995, she donated her original trautonium mix to the German Museum for Contemporary Technology. On February 26, 2002 she passed away in Berlin, in his native Germany.
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