Mauricio Kagel
Mauricio Kagel · Arts & Literature
Avant-garde composer
1931, Buenos Aires, Argentina — 2008, Cologne, Germany
Argentina · Germany
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Mauricio Kagel was an Argentine-German composer and a leading figure of the postwar avant-garde, celebrated for his 'instrumental theatre' in which the physical actions of performers became part of the composition. Born in Buenos Aires to a Jewish family of Russian émigré origin, he settled in Cologne in 1957 and became central to the new-music scene there. His inventive, often theatrical works reshaped ideas about what a musical performance could be.
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Avant-garde composer
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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