The American composer Herbert Deutsch who co-invented the synthesiser with Robert Moog has died in New York, outliving his fellow-visionary by 17 years.
Deutsch labored first on a theremin prototype earlier than creating the keyboard interface of the Moog synthesiser.
He composed and the primary piece for the Moog – “Jazz Pictures – A Worksong and Blues” – and gave premiere performances with the system, which made him neither wealthy nor well-known. However he performed, in his personal estimation, ‘an vital a part of the historical past of music.’
He taught f digital music and composition at Hofstra College till the month of his demise.
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