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Oskar Sala (July 18, 1910, Greiz, Germany - February 26, 2002, Berlin) was one of the most innovative composers in the history of electronic music. His unique instrument, the Mixtur-Trautonium, was first introduced to the public in 1952 and soon received international licenses. Its massive architecture remains so unique that no one can reproduce the instrument nor interpret any of his compositions.
Oskar Sala had been a pupil of Friedrich Trautwein, the inventor of the Trautonium. But physicist Sala studied music with Paul Hindemith in 1930 at the Berlin conservatory and played his compositions for Trautonium. Early on with Trautwein, he composed pieces for Trautonium and performed them with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Carl Schuricht in 1940.
From the 1940s, Sala dedicated himself to film scoring and refined numerous classics. In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was unsuccessfully searching for an acoustic environment for eerie scenes in The Birds (1963) until Sala convinced him to use his Trautonium-generated sound-effects.
In 2000, Peter Badge authored a bilingual, German and English biography, Oskar Sala - Pionier Der Elektronischen Musik, with many photos of Sala, the Trautonium, newspaper articles, a filmography, etc. It also includes a 73:39-minute CD-ROM / AUDIO CD. Promotional video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWta-WQRIjY
1998
Erdenklang
CD, Comp
1997
MDR - Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
2xCD, Album
1997
1994
Originalton West
CD, Album
1992
Originalton West
CD, Album
1990
1986
1983
Wergo
LP, Album
1979
Telefunken
LP, Album
1971
1970
1963
TransWorld Recorded Library
10"
1962
Gravesaner Blätter
7"
1961
1941
Telefunken
Shellac, 10"
Metronome
7", EP, Single
2021
2013
2012
CODE
CD, Album + DVD
2011
2008
Dreamlife
DVD, Comp, NTSC, 4:3
2006
2004
Warner Classics
CD, Comp, RE
2000
Satzwerk:Verlag, Telescope Film
CD-ROM
2000
1991
Slow Motion Records (3)
CD, Comp
1991
Milan
CD, Comp
1988
Thorofon, Capella (4)
CD, Comp
1988
AURORA (2), ETERNA
2xLP, Comp, Mono
1987
Thorofon Capella
4xLP, Comp, RE + Box
1980
1979
1969
Electrola, Die Stimme Seines Herrn
LP
1966
1965
Electrola
LP
1963
1962
1961
Devega Records
LP, Mono
Thorofon
LP
2022
Serious Serious
Blu-ray-R, Mixtape
2017
Urbsounds Collective
Cass, Mixed, Mixtape, C60
2016
Sinetone AMR
11xFile, MP3, Comp, 320
2014
Схема
File, MP3, Mixed, 320
2013
Dummy Records
File, MP3, Mixed, 128
2013
The Drone
File, MP3, Mixed, 320
2013
Ricercar
8xCD, Album
2011
Chrome Dreams
2xCD, Album, Comp
2010
Dummy Records
File, MP3, Mixed, 128
2009
Not On Label
41xFile, MP3, Comp, 256
2006
Erdenklang
CD, Comp
2000
Prudence
CD, Comp
1996
Dark Star
CD, Comp
1996
1985
Alien Artists
Cass, Comp, C90
Dolor Del Estamago
CDr, Unofficial
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