The Birth of Synthesizer

The Music Telegraph | Text 2024/10/01 [14:13]

The Birth of Synthesizer

The Music Telegraph| 입력 : 2024/10/01 [14:13]

▲ A scene of performing the world's first synthesizer, the Telharmonium (New York Review of Reviews Corp, 1890s)

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The Birth of Synthesizer 

 

In 1897, Thaddeus Cahill created the world's first electric synthesizer, the Telharmonium. Telharmonium was built with 36 keys and could only generate sine waves. In 1923, Leon Theremin invented the Theremin, which became the first electronic instrument to gain public attention. It wasn't until the late 1930s that recording equipment began to be invented, paving the way for the future of synthesizers. Between the late 1940s and early 1950s, French composers Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry experimented with manipulating recorded sounds by playing them backward, looping, or changing the playback speed. In 1951, German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, one of the founders of the Electronic Music Studio at the West German Radio Station, was experimenting with creating sounds using purely electronic means, such as oscillators and sound generators. On October 28, 1952, the first electronic music concert was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, performed by Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky. By the late 1950s, there was already a debate over whether music should be "electronic or traditional acoustic," and it became a heated topic among composers. However, most successful electronic music composers concluded that a combination of both was the best approach. The first commercially available synthesizers began to emerge in the late 1960s. The Moog synthesizer, designed by Robert Moog, officially went on sale in 1965.

 

 

 

 

 

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