The Argentine composer Mauricio Kagel died yesterday at the age of 76 in Cologne, Germany. He was born in Buenos Aires on December 24th, 1931. According to the Canadian Press, Kagel was a self-taught musician who could play the piano, organ, and cello and at the very young age of 18, he became adviser to an avant-garde group, Agrupacion Nueva Musica. After studying literature and philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires, he went on to become a director at the famous Teatro Colon and eventually received a scholarship to go study in Germany, where he settled for the rest of his life. His contributions to instrumental theater were enormous and he was also known for the humor in his work, once including a toilet flush in one of his avant-garde pieces.
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