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3 unusual facts about Oskar Sala


Oskar Sala

In 1929, he moved to Berlin to study piano and composition with composer and violinist Paul Hindemith at the Berlin conservatory.

:Contains Paul Hindemith's Langsames Stueck für Orchester und Rondo für Trautonium (Slow Piece for Orchestra And Rondo for Trautonium), Sala's own compositions, dating from 1992 to 1995, and his soundtrack to Der Wuerger von Schloss Dartmore (The Strangler of Castle Dartmore)

Oskar Sala (18 July 1910 – 26 February 2002) was a 20th-century German physicist, composer and a pioneer of electronic music born in Greiz.


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Oskar Sala composed music for industrial films, but the most famous was the bird noises for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.


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