Léon Theremin

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Biography

Russian inventor

  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 15 August 1896
  • Place of birth
  • Saint Petersburg
  • Death date
  • 1993-11-03
  • Death age
  • 97
  • Place of death
  • Moscow
  • Spouses
  • Lavinia Williams
  • Education
  • The First Saint-Petersburg Gymnasium·Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University·Saint Petersburg Conservatory·
  • Knows language
  • Russian language·French language·English language
  • Member of
  • Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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Trivia

Inventor of the Theremin, an electronic musical instrument.

At the height of his popularity in the 1930s in New York City, he was kidnapped by Soviet agents, under direct orders by Stalin, and brought back to the Soviet Union, where he was forced to design electronic surveillence devices.

His development of the theremin, the first uniquely electronic musical instrument, is even more astonishing when one considers it was invented before the oscilloscope!

Quotes

There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein. .

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