Mauricio Kagel
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  Mauricio Kagel was born in 1931 in Buenos Aires; there he studied in private form - piano, violoncello, organ, song, address and theory. The same as Giuseppe Verdi, didn't approve its entrance exam to the Conservatory. In the University it studied the careers of History of the literature and Philosophy. Very early he/she began to work in the Grouping New Music, in Buenos Aires. "To listen contemporary music, to interpret it, to organize and to administer, all this was habitual already before coming to Europe." 

   Their works in films and musical for the Cinemateca Argentina that helped to be founded in 1950, they testify their interdisciplinary interest. From that moment, he/she says, I have made a total of nineteen movies like director. The cinema is a form of modern opera, and I compose at the same visual time and musically". (Kagel also composed music for one of the works teachers of the surrealist silent cinema: Le chieii atidalon (The Andalusian dog), of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.)

   After their plans shipwrecked to found a study of electronic music, it assumed director's position in the opera of camera of the Teatro Colón. Parallelly he/she wrote for the magazine New Vision on it photographs and cinema. Pierre Boulez, during a tour for Buenos Aires, examined its scores and he/she suggested him that travels to Europe. With a scholarship the German government's DAAD, Kagel arrived in 1957 to Colony, then a center neuralgic of the New Music, where it continues living. And so much he/she was integrated in the German musical life that John Cage, the other magician of the paradoxes, ended up saying: "The best European musician that I know is an Argentinean, Mauricio Kagel."  (*)

   Mauricio Kagel passed away the 18 of September of 2008

(*) Note of Juan María Solare Revista Clásica  (Nov. 1999)

Kagel 1961

Kagel with Ensemble for New Music from Cologne 1961

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