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The Music of Mauricio Kagel (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Music of Mauricio Kagel (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Mauricio Kagel was undoubtedly one of the major figures in the new
music of the last fifty years. Growing up in the rich cultural
atmosphere of Buenos Aires in the 1940s and '50s, where the writer
Jorge Luis Borges was one of his teachers, he became a member of
avant-garde circles as well as receiving a rigorous musical
education. By 1957 Kagel had acted on the advice of Pierre Boulez
to move to Europe to pursue a career as a composer. He quickly
established himself at Cologne, the rallying point for young
composers at the time, and became one of the leading, if
controversial, figures at the famous Darmstadt summer courses. He
embraced multiple serialism, aleatory technique and electronics,
but he is best known for his pioneering explorations in music
theatre, radio play, film and mixed media. BjArn Heile charts
Kagel's compositional development, considering the aesthetic and
ideological issues the composer raises in his work. Focusing on
Kagel's use of music as a means of intellectual inquiry, Heile
shows Kagel to constantly question the nature of music and its role
in society. Kagel's broadening of the concept of music to include
theatre, film and other media, his disdain for purism as well as
his subversive humour and sense of the absurd have challenged
reified notions of music and art. Heile considers Kagel's
background as Argentine immigrant to Europe (born to Russian-Jewish
immigrants to Argentina) to situate the composer's aesthetic. What
emerges is the breadth of Kagel's imagination and the multiplicity
of contexts he drew from, which were both distinctive and, in the
age of pluralist multiculturalism and globalization, exemplary. As
Heile demonstrates, it was Kagel's enlarged notion of music as
inherently multimedial that may be his most important contribution
to new music, and on which his reputation ultimately rests.
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