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Article: The Music of Mauricio Kagel.(Book review)
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The Music of Mauricio Kagel. By Bjorn Heile. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. [viii, 209 p. ISBN 10: 0-7546-3523-6; ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-3523-9. $99.95.] Music examples, photos, notes, chronological list of works, select bibliography, indexes.
This is the first monograph in English devoted to the music of Mauricio Kagel, a major figure of the European musical avant-garde in the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Buenos Aires in 1931 and self-taught as a composer, Kagel immigrated to Cologne, Germany in 1957 where he received international recognition for his music. Although he possessed a varied compositional palette that included aspects of integral ...