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It has deceased Mauricio Kagel

Sep 19th, 2008 • Categories: Argentina, audioteletipos, news

It has deceased Mauricio Kagel

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“Uno of the most famous contemporary composers, the German-Argentine one Mauricio Kagel, has deceased at the age of 76 in Cologne (Germany), has announced a spokesman of the editorial one that publishes its scores, C.F. Peters Musikverlag, he as reports France Presse. Composer of classical music, of opera and of soundtracks of movies as An Andalusian dog, of Luis Buñuel, Kagel was recognized globally like one of the large innovators of the musical creation. “El better European musician is an Argentine, Mauricio Kagel”, said in an occasion the legendary modernist composer estadouniense John Shit.

Mauricio Kagel (Buenos Aires, 1931-Colonia, 2008) was one of the most prominent composers of the last times, noticeable by its constant innovation in the musical theater and its conviction antiinstitucional. It emphasized for its interest in promoting the theatrical side of the musical action. In fact, is their compositions was used to including indications so that the interpreters performed you determined gestures and was used to giving guidelines so that the musicians interacted. Good part of this interest in the dramatization of the music approached it the theater of the absurd one. ”

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