Leon Theremin

EMINENT PERSONS: LEON THEREMIN

Lev Sergeyevich Termen (Leon Theremin) is a Russian-Soviet-American physicist, engineer and inventor. He was born on 27 August (O.S. 15 August) 1896 – 3 November 1993 in St. Petersburg, the Russian Empire. A subject of His Majesty the Emperor of All Russia, a citizen of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation, is primarily known as the creator of a unique original electric musical instrument with a completely unusual sound, called “theremin” (or thereminvox). But there was much more to it…

The noble family of Lev Sergeyevich goes back centuries and originates in medieval France, where his ancestors won their right to the Huguenot confession sweating blood. The French transcription implies the name of Termen to be written as Theremin. Lev’s mother, Evgenia Antonovna, and his father, the well-known lawyer Sergei Emilievich Termen, gave their son excellent education.

In 1914 Lev graduated from the First Petersburg Men’s Gymnasium with a silver medal. His first independent electrical experiments Termen carried out during the years of his gymnasium youth.

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Serge G. Balandin

Published: 22:50 | 12.10.2016

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