Artist: Mauricio Kagel
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Zwei Akte
Year: 1991
Tracks: 7
6
Year: 1985
Tracks: 6
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Kagel proven to be one of the most versatile, originative and witty composers to come of age in the instant half of the 20th 100. He studied piano, theory, violoncello, organ, telling, and conducting, and was self-taught as a composer. Kagel too studied philosophy and lit extensively during his college long time, and his career finally included photographic film and dramatic event.
His early career found Kagel filling positions that drew upon all of these interests. He took a position in Colón as conductor of the Chamber Opera and Theater, too conducting new-music concerts in the previous '50s. The sixties found Kagel in the United States, where he undertook a lecture tour and taught shortly at the University of Buffalo. He then returned to Europe, where he filled Stockhausen's shoes as the music director of the Institute of New Music at the Rheinsiche Musikschule. He was besides a presence at the West German Radio electronic music studio, and produced several of his have films and plays.
One tail find in Kagel's output elements ranging from serialism to expressionism to musique concrete to Dada to aleatoria. Many of his deeds likewise engage musical montage techniques, such as his "Euphony for Renaissance Instruments" and the music for the film Ludwig Van. The influence of Satie and Cage can be seen in "Der Schall" and "Unter Strom," deuce chamber pieces which call for a multifariousness of antiquated, invented, or "nonmusical" instruments. Again, however, these sounds are not thrown together with reckless give up; as Kagel himself stated, "An substantive aspect of my work is strict composition with elements which ar non themselves pure."
