nternet users hitting up Google to help with their searches on Monday will discover that the search engine's colorful logo has been adapted to shine a spotlight on musical inventor and composer Oskar Sala.
While once well-known for his pioneering work fusing the fields of electronics and musical instruments—he is widely regarded as having helped create a precursor to the synthesizer, which he used to great effect in films such as the Alfred Hitchcock classic The Birds—his contribution may have been in danger of becoming forgotten among all but music historians and film buffs.
Sala studied piano and organ at an early age. As a teenager, he began performing classical piano concerts and creating compositions and songs.
At the age of 19, Sala moved to Berlin to study piano and composition with the violinist Paul Hindemith.