Editing Mauricio Kagel (section)

==Music==
{{See also|List of compositions by Mauricio Kagel}}
''Staatstheater'' (1970) remains, probably, Kagel's best-known work. He described it as a "ballet for non-dancers",{{Cite quote|date=September 2008}} although it is in many ways more like an opera; the devices it uses as [[musical instrument]]s include [[chamber pot]]s and [[enema]] equipment.

Similar is the radio play ''Ein Aufnahmezustand'' (1969) which is about the incidents surrounding the recording of a radio play. In ''Con voce'' (With Voice), a masked trio silently mimes playing instruments. ''Match'' (1964) is a "tennis game" for cellists with a percussionist as umpire,{{sfn|Griffiths|1978|loc=188}} also the subject of one of Kagel's films and perhaps the best-known of his works of instrumental theatre.{{sfn|Griffiths|1981|loc=812}}

Kagel also wrote a large number of more conventional orchestral and [[chamber music|chamber]] pieces. Many of these make references to music of the past by, among others, Beethoven, Brahms, Bach and Liszt.{{sfn|Warnaby|1986|loc=38}}{{sfn|Decarsin|1985|loc=260}}