Editing Trautonium (section)

==Present Trautonium performers==
Oskar Sala developed the Trautonium further and worked with at least one pupil, music therapy pioneer [[Maria Schüppel]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Musiktherapie |url=http://www.musiktherapeutische-arbeitsstaette.de/index.php?open=Maria_Schuppel/maria_schuppel |access-date=2022-11-27 |website=www.musiktherapeutische-arbeitsstaette.de}}</ref> However, [[:de:Peter Pichler (Musiker)|Peter Pichler]], a Munich musician and artist, had heard the sound of the Trautonium when he was a young man and was fascinated by its emotional impact and dynamic range. Pichler found he could not forget the unique sound; he searched obsessively for anyone who could help him understand the instrument and he finally tracked down Sala. In 1996 the two met in Sala's studio in Berlin, and the result was the preservation of much of Sala's knowledge.{{Citation needed|date=April 2018}}

Pichler was transformed by the experience but he had to wait fifteen years before he could afford to commission his own Mixturtrautonium from the company Trautoniks.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.trautoniks.de/product.html|title=Trautoniks Produkte|last=JH|website=www.trautoniks.de|access-date=2018-03-21}}</ref>
He wrote a musical theater piece about the fathers of the Trautonium, "Wiedersehen in Trautonien", which was performed at the German Museum in Munich, for the 100th birthday of Oskar Sala in 2010. For this theater piece, Pichler commissioned three "Volkstrautonien" (a smaller version of the instrument), one of which was bought by the German Museum later for its permanent collection. Pichler is still cooperating closely with the German Museum in Munich that is administering Sala's estate.{{Citation needed|date=April 2018}}<ref>{{Cite web|date=18 December 2023|title=Wiedersehen in Trautonien|url=https://www.deutsches-museum.de/fileadmin/Content/data/020_Dokumente/040_KuT_Artikel/2010/34-4-52.pdf}}</ref>

Since then, Pichler has been making regular appearances with the Mixturtrautonium in various musical genres. The classical music composed for this instrument by Paul Hindemith, Harald Genzmer and Oskar Sala, for instance, is extremely challenging for even an experienced musician to play.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}<ref>CD booklet "Works for Trautonium by Harald Genzmer", published by Paladino Media, Vienna, 2017</ref>

Pichler is one of the very few musicians in the world who has mastered this instrument and is also composing for it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.peterpichler-trautonium.com/english-1/|title=English Menu|website=Peter Pichler - Trautonium|language=de-DE|access-date=2018-03-21}}</ref>

Daniel Matz plays trautonium on the [[Agnes Obel]] albums, ''[[Citizen of Glass]]'' and ''[[Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel|Late Night Tales]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/daniel-matz-mn0002639075|title=Daniel Matz|website=AllMusic|access-date=2021-05-17}}</ref>

The Dutch performer LudoWic [Thijs Lodewijk] <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ludowic.com|title=LudoWic|website=LudoWic|access-date=2024-03-20}}</ref> also plays the Trautonium and is one of the few people that owns and plays a Mixtur Trautonium.