Editing Mauricio Kagel (section)

==Life and career==
===Early life and education===
Mauricio Raúl Kagel was born on 24 December 1931 in [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]], into an [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi Jewish]] family that had fled Russia in the 1920s.{{sfn|Anon.|n.d.}} He studied music, history of literature, and philosophy in Buenos Aires.{{sfn|Grimshaw|2009}} In 1957 he moved to [[Cologne]], [[West Germany]], where he lived until his death.

===As teacher===
From 1960–66 and 1972–76 Kagel taught at the [[Darmstädter Ferienkurse]].{{sfn|Attinello|2001}} He also taught from 1964–65 at the [[University at Buffalo]] as the visiting Slee Professor of music theory. At the [[Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin|Berlin Film and Television Academy]] he was a visiting lecturer.{{When|date=March 2024}} He served as director of courses for new music in [[Gothenburg]] and Cologne.{{sfn|Attinello|2001}} He was professor for new [[music theatre]] at the [[Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln|Köln Hochschule]] from 1974–97.<!--Attinello 2001 would cover this as well, except he does not give the terminal date.-->

Among his students were [[Moya Henderson]], [[Kevin Volans]], [[Maria de Alvear]], [[Carola Bauckholt]], [[Branimir Krstić]], [[David Sawer]], {{ill|Rickard Scheffer|sv}}, [[Juan Maria Solare]], [[Norma Tyer]], [[Gerald Barry (composer)|Gerald Barry]], Martyn Harry, and [[Chao-Ming Tung]]. ''{{See LMST|Mauricio|Kagel}}''

===As composer===

Some of his pieces give specific theatrical instructions to the performers,{{sfn|Kennedy and Bourne|2006}} such as to adopt certain facial expressions while playing, to make their stage entrances in a particular way, or to physically interact with other performers. For this reason commentators at times related his work to the [[theatre of the absurd]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-12-22 |title=Mauricio Kagel |url=https://www.talkclassical.com/threads/mauricio-kagel.33763/ |access-date=2024-06-20 |website=Classical Music Forum |language=en-US}}</ref> He has been regarded by music historians as deploying a critical intelligence interrogating the position of music in society.{{sfn|Griffiths|1978|loc=188}}<!--Is this a quote or paraphrase?--> He was also active in the fields of film and photography.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jack |first=Adrian |date=2008-09-19 |title=Mauricio Kagel |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/sep/19/obituary.mauricio.kagel |access-date=2024-06-20 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In 1991 Kagel was invited by [[Walter Fink]] to be the second composer featured in the annual [[Rheingau Musik Festival#Portraits of living composers|Komponistenporträt]] of the [[Rheingau Musik Festival]]. In 2000 he received the [[Ernst von Siemens Music Prize]].