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Oskar Sala

1910 - 2002

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Oskar Sala (18 July 1910 – 26 February 2002) was a German composer and a pioneer of electronic music. He played an instrument called the Trautonium, an early form of electronic synthesizer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oskar Sala is the 1,131st most popular composer (up from 1,136th in 2019), the 4,460th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,490th in 2019) and the 165th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Oskar Sala ranks 1,131 out of 1,451. Before him are Rudolf Friml, Avet Terterian, W. C. Handy, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Brian Ferneyhough, and Otto Jahn. After him are Julius Benedict, Bruno Coulais, Fumio Hayasaka, Jean Gilbert, Arif Malikov, and Vasyl Barvinsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Oskar Sala ranks 250. Before him are Duncan McNaughton, Jakob Bender, Rachel de Queiroz, Donald Watson, Elemér Kocsis, and Gunnar Fischer. After him are Ramón Zabalo, Robert Havemann, Giancarlo Brusati, Larysa Hienijuš, Iuliu Baratky, and Paul Sweezy. Among people deceased in 2002, Oskar Sala ranks 212. Before him are Jean Dockx, Indra Devi, Bill Bruce, Georges Beaucourt, Kaisa Parviainen, and Raymond Firth. After him are Francisco Cabañas, Leopold Vietoris, Nils Bohlin, Richard Helms, Ruth Williams Khama, and Eddie Meduza.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oskar Sala ranks 4,463 out of 7,253. Before him are Selma Ergeç (1978), Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (1873), Louise Caroline of Hochberg (1768), Otto Jahn (1813), Christiane Hörbiger (1938), and Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen (1794). After him are Julius Benedict (1804), Reinhard Hardegen (1913), Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1774), Bernd Storck (1963), Karl Ferdinand Sohn (1805), and Wolfram Löwe (1945).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Oskar Sala ranks 165. Before him are Walter Braunfels (1882), Boris Papandopulo (1906), Gottfried August Homilius (1714), Johanna Kinkel (1810), Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795), and Otto Jahn (1813). After him are Julius Benedict (1804), Jean Gilbert (1879), Lukas Foss (1922), Hauschka (1966), Robert Franz (1815), and Melchior Vulpius (1570).

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