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About Bob Moog
was an American engineer and electronic music pioneer. He was the founder of the synthesizer manufacturer Moog Music and the inventor of the first commercial synthesizer, the Moog synthesizer, which debuted in 1964. In 1970, Moog released a more portable model, the Minimoog, described as the most famous and influential synthesizer in history. Among Moog's honors are a Technical Grammy Award, received in 2002, and an induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Robert "Bob" Moog is the subject of the biography, Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution, by Albert Glinsky, with a Foreword by Francis Ford Coppola (Oxford University Press, 2022). The book is the first to traverse Moog's entire life and career. Moog contributed the Foreword to Glinsky's first book, Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage, the definitive portrait of the life and work of Leon Theremin, who was a principle inspiration to Moog.