Mauricio Kagel

Birth : 1931-12-24, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Death : 2008-09-18

History

Mauricio Kagel (1931–2008) was an Argentine-German composer, conductor, librettist and director. His oeuvre includes instrumental music and works for music theater, as well as the composition and production of radio plays and films. He made an important contribution to New Music in the second half of the 20th century.

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Repertoire

Director

Kagel’s interest in the theatricality of objects is also a demonstration of the detachment he wishes to keep between an object and its function, presenting situations with diverse interpretative possibilities, keeping the audience frustrated as to the purpose of the actions and the objects connected with them. Repertoire, a movement taken from his major theatre work Staatstheater, presents a hundred brief scenes without text or plot, that involve interactions between objects and people.

MM 51 – Ein Stück Filmmusik für Klavier und die Projektion einer Collage von Mauricio Kagel aus F. W. Murnaus Nosferatu

Director

Short film release

Ludwig van

An odyssey through Beethoven’s lasting presence and influence in our modern world – viewed through the eyes of the composer himself.

Ludwig van

Music Arranger

An odyssey through Beethoven’s lasting presence and influence in our modern world – viewed through the eyes of the composer himself.

Ludwig van

Author

An odyssey through Beethoven’s lasting presence and influence in our modern world – viewed through the eyes of the composer himself.

Ludwig van

Director

An odyssey through Beethoven’s lasting presence and influence in our modern world – viewed through the eyes of the composer himself.

Hallelujah

Director

Hallelujah is one of Kagel's major works, a surreal story about the mouth and it's many permutations. Hands, eyes, lips, tongues, etc are in quite a quandary without means of escape.

Pas de Deux

Director

From Mauricio Kagel, a short follow-up to his previous effort Solo. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Solo

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Short film release

Match für drei Spieler

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Short film release

Antithese

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Experimental electronic composition and film by Argentine-German composer Mauricio Kagel, Antithese is also a surreal innovative multimedia/interdisciplinary performance.