Maurizio Kagel
Composer
Argentine,
1931-
MAURICIO KAGEL, born in Buenos Aires on 24 December 1931, is among the most distinctive composers of contemporary music. Kagel’s creative output has been enormous. It encompassing the stage, orchestral chamber music, film scores, radio plays and essays. From the very beginning his name has been associated above all with music theatre, the genre in which he has perhaps exerted the greatest impact. Throughout its broad spectrum, his music reveals a breach with any and all forms of academicism as well as close ties to tradition, especially to the German
Selected works by Maurizio Kagel:
“All I say is that non-experts often know more than experts and should therefore be consulted and that prophets of truth (including those who use arguments) more often than not are carried along by a visions that clashes with the very events that vision is supposed to be exploring.
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--Paul K. Feyerabend, Against Method