List of compositions by Mauricio Kagel

A list of works by the composer Mauricio Kagel.

Sources:

Chronological

 * 1950
 * Palimpsestos for mixed choir a capella


 * 1952
 * Two Pieces for Orchestra
 * Variations for mixed quartet (fl, cl, vln, vc)


 * 1953
 * Sextet (fl, cl, bcl, vln, vIa, vc); revised 1957 as String Sextet (2 vln, 2 vla, 2 vc)


 * 1954
 * Música para la torre ('Music for the Tower'); in four parts: 1) For Orchestra [the Two Pieces from 1952], 2) Study for Percussion, 3) Ostinato for Chamber Ensemble, 4) ensayo de musica concreta (Essay in musique concrète)
 * Muertos de Buenos Aires, music for the film of the same title by Alejandro Sanderman
 * Cinco cantos de Génesis for voice and piano
 * Four Pieces for piano


 * 1955
 * Drei Klangstudien ('Three Studies in Sound')
 * Ocho motetes apócrifos for mixed choir


 * 1956
 * De ruina mundis: Cantata for voice and instruments
 * Aforismos de Apollinaire for clarinet and piano
 * Prelude No. 1 for bandoneon
 * Cuatro piezas breves for strings
 * Elegía para clarinete solo for clarinet solo


 * 1958
 * Anagrama for vocal soloists, speaking choir and chamber ensemble


 * 1959
 * Transición II for piano, percussion and two tape recorders


 * 1960
 * Transición I for electronic sounds
 * Sur scène: Chamber music theatre piece
 * Sonant (1960/...) for guitar, double bass, harp, and skin instruments
 * Pandorasbox (Bandoneonpiece) for bandoneon
 * Journal de théâtre: Collection of situations for instruments, actors and props; later to comprise 'Pas de cinq' (1965), 'Camera oscura' (1965), 'Die Himmelsmechanik' (1965), 'Variaktionen' (1967) and 'Kommentar und Extempore' (1967)
 * Le Bruit: Invection pour toute sorte de sources sonores et expressions injurieuses (unpublished, unperformed)


 * 1961
 * Mimetics (Metapiece) for piano; a) for solo piano, b) interrupted by other compositions, c) as Metapiece (Mimetics), simultaneous with other compositions by Kagel or other composers
 * Heterophonie for orchestra


 * 1962
 * Improvisation ajoutée for organ; rev. 1968
 * Antithese; a) Music for electronic and public sounds; b) Play for one actor with electronic and public sounds


 * 1964
 * Phonophonie: Four melodramas for two voices and other sound sources; rev. 1965; radiophonic version 1965
 * Die Frauen ('The Women'): Theatrical piece for ladies for voices and instruments (unpublished, unperformed)
 * Prima vista for slide pictures and indeterminate number of sound sources
 * Diaphonie Nos 1-3 for choir and/or orchestra and slide projectors
 * Match for three players
 * Composition und Decomposition: A reading piece


 * 1965
 * Tremens; a) Scenic montage of a test for two actors, electric instruments, percussion, tapes and slide projection; b) Variaktionen über Tremens: Scenic montage of a test for two actors, tapes and slide projection; c) Musik aus Tremens [instrumental version with tapes ad lib]
 * 'Pas de cinq': Walking scene for five actors; part of Journal de théâtre (1960)
 * 'Die Himmelsmechanik' ('The Mechanism of the Sky'): Composition with stage décors; part of Journal de théâtre (1960)
 * 'Camera oscura': Chromatic play for light sources and actors; part of Journal de théâtre (1960)
 * Mirum for tuba


 * 1966
 * Music for renaissance instruments for 23 players; alt. Chamber Music for Renaissance Instruments for 2-22 players


 * 1967
 * String Quartet I/II
 * 'Kommentar und Extempore' ('Commentary and Extempore'): Monologues with gestures; part of Journal de théâtre (1960)
 * 'Variaktionen' ('Vari-actions') for singers and actors; part of Journal de théâtre (1960)
 * Fantasy for organ with obbligati
 * Montage for various sound sources [combination of several of Kagel's instrumental compositions]; Montage à titre de spectacle [version with theatrical works]


 * 1968
 * Hallelujah for voices
 * Der Schall ('Sound') for five players
 * Privat for lonely listener
 * Ornithologica multiplicata for exotic and indigenous birds


 * 1969
 * Synchronstudie ('Study in Synchronicity') for singer, Foley artists and film projection
 * Unter Strom ('Under Current') for three players
 * (Hörspiel) Ein Aufnahmezustand (1. Dosis) ('(Radio Play) A State of Recording (first dose)')


 * 1970
 * Ludwig van: Homage by Beethoven
 * Acustica: Music for experimental sound producers, loudspeakers and two to five players
 * Klangwehr ('Sound Defence') for marching music corps
 * Tactil for three
 * Atem ('Breath') for one wind player
 * Staatstheater: Scenic composition; constituents:
 * 'Répertoire': Theatrical concert piece
 * 'Einspielungen' ('Recordings'): Music for loudspeakers
 * 'Ensemble' for 16 voices
 * 'Debüt' for 60 voices
 * 'Saison' ('Season'): Singspiel in 65 scenes
 * 'Spielplan' ('Programme'): Instrumental music in action
 * 'Kontra → Danse': Ballet for non-dancers
 * 'Freifahrt' ('Free Ride'): Gliding chamber music
 * 'Parkett' ('Stalls'): Concert mass scenes


 * 1971
 * (Hörspiel) Ein Aufnahmezustand (2. und 3. Dosis)
 * Probe ('Rehearsal') for an improvised collective; radiophonic version 1972
 * Morceau de concours for one or two trumpeters; rev. 1992
 * Guten Morgen! ('Good morning!'): radio play consisting of advertisements


 * 1972
 * Programm: conversations with chamber music; sections:
 * 'Abend' ('Evening') for vocal double quartet, trombone quintet, electric organ and piano
 * 'Aus Zungen Stimmen' ('From Tongues Voices') for accordion quintet
 * 'Charakterstück' ('Character Piece') for zither quartet
 * 'Gegenstimmen' ('Countervoices') for mixed choir and obligatory harpsichord
 * 'General Baß for continuing instrumental sounds
 * 'Die Mutation' ('The Mutation') for men's (and/or boys') voices and obligatory piano
 * 'Musi' for plucking orchestra
 * 'Recitativarie' for singing harpsichordist
 * 'Siegfriedp' for violoncello
 * 'Unguis incarnatus est' for piano and...[bass instrument]
 * 'Vom Hörensagen' ('Hearsay') for women's (and/or girls') choir and obligatory harmonium


 * Exotica for extra-European instruments
 * Con Voce for three mute players
 * Variationen ohne Fuge ('Variations without Fugue') for large orchestra on Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel for piano Op. 24 by Johannes Brahms (1861/62)


 * 1973
 * 1898 for children's voices and instruments; rev. 1996
 * Zwei-Mann-Orchester ('Two-Man-Orchestra') for two one-man-orchestras


 * 1975
 * Soundtrack: A filmic radio play
 * Mare nostrum: Discovery, pacification and conversion of the Mediterranean region by a tribe from Amazonia [music theatre]
 * Kantrimiusik: Pastoral for voices and instruments


 * 1976
 * Bestiarium: Acoustic fables on two stages
 * Zählen und Erzählen ('Counting and Recounting') for non-grownups [music theatre by children]
 * Die Umkehrung Amerikas ('The Reversal of America'): Epic radio play
 * MM 51: A piece of film music for piano


 * 1977
 * An Tasten ('On Keys'): Piano etude
 * Quatre degrés ('Four Stages'); sections:
 * 'Dressur' ('Dressage'): Percussion trio for wooden instruments
 * 'Présentation' for two
 * 'Déménagement' ('Removal'): Silent play for stage workers
 * 'Variété': Concert show for artistes and musicians


 * 1978
 * Tango Alemán for voice, violin, bandoneon, and piano
 * Ex-Position; constituents:
 * 'Die Rhythmusmaschinen' ('The Rhythm Machines'): Action for gymnasts, drum machines, and percussionists
 * 'Chorbuch' ('Choir Book') for vocal ensemble and keyboard instruments


 * 'Zehn Marsche, um den Sieg zu verfehlen' ('Ten Marches to Miss the Victory') for winds and percussion; from Der Tribun (1979)
 * Die Erschöpfung der Welt: Theatrical illusion in one act


 * 1979
 * Blue's Blue: An ethnomusicological reconstruction for four players
 * Klangwölfe ('Sound Wolves') for violin and piano
 * Der Tribun ('The Tribune'): Radio play for a political orator, marching sounds and loudspeakers
 * Vox Humana? Cantata for solo loudspeaker, women's voices and orchestra
 * Aus Deutschland: lieder opera


 * 1981
 * Mitternachtsstük for voices and instruments on fragments from the diaries of Robert Schumann (1828); fourth movement added in 1986
 * Finale with chamber ensemble


 * 1982
 * Rrrrrrr...
 * a) A radio fantasy (with 41 pieces):
 * 11 pieces for winds, double basses and percussion: 'Raccontando', 'Rauschpfeifen', 'Rejdovák', 'Register', 'Réjouissance', 'Reprisen', 'Reveille/Retraite', 'Rhapsodie', 'Rheinländer', 'Ritornell l ', 'Ritornell 2'
 * Seven pieces for mixed choir (piano ad lib): 'Rrrrrrr...', 'Requiem', 'Resurrexit dominus', 'Rêverie', 'Rex tremendae', 'Romance', 'Ring Shouts'
 * Eight pieces for organ: 'Râga', 'Rauschpfeifen', 'Repercussa', 'Ragtime-Waltz', 'Rondeña', 'Ripieno', 'Rosalie', 'Rossignols enrhumés
 * Six pieces for two percussionists: 'Railroad Drama', 'Ranz des vaches', 'Rigaudon', 'Rim Shots & Co.', 'Ruf', 'Rutscher'
 * Four pieces for solo voice with piano accompaniment: 'Railroad Song', 'Rappresentatione sacra', 'Revolution Speech', 'Rural Blue'
 * Five pieces for jazz ensemble: 'Rackett', 'Rrrrrrre-bop', 'Reeds', 'Rhythm-Bone & Brush', 'Riff'
 * b) Radio play on 'A radio fantasy' for one speaker (1982)


 * Fürst Igor, Strawinsky ('Prince Igor, Stravinsky') for bass voice and instruments
 * Fragen: Hörspot ('Questions: Listening Slot')
 * Szenario for strings and tape


 * 1983
 * Intermezzo for voices and chamber ensemble
 * La trahison orale ('Oral treason'): A musical epic on the devil; radiophonic version 1987
 * Two Ballads by Guillaume de Machaut; instrumental realization by Mauricio Kagel


 * 1984
 * Der Eid des Hippokrates ('Hippocrates' Oath') for piano three-hands
 * ...nach einer Lektüre von Orwell ('...upon Reading Orwell'): Radio play in Germanic meta-language


 * 1985
 * Pan for piccolo and string quartet
 * Saint Bach's Passion for solo voices, choirs and large orchestra
 * Cäcilia: Ausgeplündert, ein Besuch bei der Heiligen ('Cecilia: looted, Visit at the Saint'); Radio play
 * Trio in Three Movements for violin, violoncello and piano
 * Mio caro Luciano: Tape collage


 * 1986
 * Aus dem Nachlaß ('From the Estate'): Pieces for viola, violoncello, and double bass
 * Ein Brief ('A Letter'): Concert scene for mezzo and orchestra
 * Old/New: Study for solo trumpet


 * 1987
 * Ce-A-Ge-E for piano and harmonizer
 * For Us: Happy Birthday to You!; a) for four violoncellos; b) arranged for picc (doubling alto fl), cl, vla, db, mandoline, gt, hp, perc (1990)
 * Third String Quartet in four movements
 * Tantz-Schul: Ballet d'action; also version as Suite for Orchestra


 * 1988
 * Quodlibet for female voice and orchestra on French chanson lyrics from the fifteenth century


 * 1989
 * Music for keyboard instruments and orchestra
 * Phantasiestück; a) for flute and piano; b) for flute and piano with accompaniment
 * 'Osten' ('East); from Die Stücke der Windrose for salon orchestra
 * 'Süden' ('South'); from Die Stücke der Windrose for salon orchestra
 * Fragende Ode ('Questioning Ode') for double choir, brass and percussion
 * Zwei Akte; a) Grand Duo for saxophone and harp; b) for two actors, saxophone and harp
 * Les idées fixes: Rondo for orchestra


 * 1990
 * Liturgien for solo voices, double choir, and large orchestra
 * 'Nordosten' ('North-east); from Die Stücke der Windrose for salon orchestra
 * Opus 1991: Concert piece for orchestra


 * 1991
 * "...den 24. xii. 1931": Garbled news for baritone and instruments
 * 'Nordwesten' ('North-west'); from Die Stücke der Windrose for salon orchestra
 * 'Südosten' ('South-east); from Die Stücke der Windrose for salon orchestra


 * 1992
 * Konzertstück for tympani and orchestra
 * Étude No. 1 for large orchestra


 * 1993
 * Passé composé: KlavieRhapsodie ('piano rhapsody')
 * Episoden, Figuren: Solo for accordion
 * Fanfanfaren for four trumpets
 * Melodien for carillon
 * Fourth string quartet in three movements
 * 'Südwesten' ('South-west'); from Die Stücke der Windrose for salon orchestra


 * 1994
 * Nah und Fern ('Near and Far'): Acoustic listening piece for bells and trumpets with background
 * 'Westen' ('West'); from Die Stücke der Windrose for salon orchestra
 * 'Norden' ('North'); from Die Stücke der Windrose for salon orchestra
 * Interview avec D. pour Monsieur Croche et orchestre; texts by Claude Debussy


 * 1995
 * Serenade for three players
 * Schattenklänge ('Shadow Sounds'): Three pieces for bass clarinet
 * L'art bruit: Solo for two
 * À deux mains: Impromptu for piano


 * 1996
 * Études Nos 2–3 for large orchestra
 * Orchestrion-Straat for chamber ensemble
 * Auftakte, sechshändig ('Upbeats, six-hands') for piano and two percussionists; version for two pianos and two percussionists: Auftakte, achthändig (2003)
 * Eine Brise ('A Breeze'): Fleeting action for 111 cyclists. Musically enriched sport event in the open


 * 1997
 * Ragtime à trois for violin, violoncello and piano
 * Playback Play: News from the music fair; radio play
 * Orgelmusik zu vier Händen ('Organ Music for four hands')


 * 1998
 * Duodramen for voices and orchestra
 * Impromptu No. 2 for piano


 * 1999
 * Semikolon: Action with bass drum
 * Schwarzes Madrigal ('Black Madrigal') for voices and instruments
 * Entführung im Konzertsaal ('Abduction in the Concert Hall'): Musical report of an incident


 * 2000
 * Burleske for baritone saxophone and choir


 * 2001
 * Quirinus' Liebeskuss for vocal ensemble and instruments
 * Broken Chords for large orchestra
 * Second Trio in One Movement for violin, violoncello and piano
 * Double Sextet for ensemble


 * 2002
 * Das Konzert for solo flute, harp, percussion and strings
 * Der Turm zu Babel ('The Tower of Babel'): Melodies for solo voice


 * 2003
 * Andere Gesänge ('Other Chants'): Intermezzi for soprano et pour l'orchestre


 * 2004
 * Magic Flutes: Perpetual Canon Interrupted for 12
 * Vorzeitiger Schlußverkauf Unvollendete Memoiren eines Toningenieurs ('Premature Sale: Unfinished Memoirs of a Sound Engineer'); radio play
 * Motetten for eight violoncellos


 * 2005
 * Fremde Töne und Widerhall ('Foreign Notes and Echo') for orchestra
 * Capriccio for two pianos
 * Fünf Vokalisen for a countertenor


 * 2006
 * L'Invention d'Adolphe Sax for saxophone quartet and chamber choir
 * Divertimento? Farce for ensemble
 * Fifth string quartet in two movements


 * 2007
 * Quasi niente for closed mouths
 * Verborgene Reime for choir and percussion


 * 2008
 * In der Matratzengruft for tenor solo and ensemble

Stage works

 * Camera obscura chromatic play for light sources with performers (1965)
 * Staatstheater (1967/70)
 * Mare nostrum, Scenic Play for countertenor, baritone, flute, oboe, guitar, harp, cello and percussion (1975)
 * Kantrimiusik, pastorale for voices and instruments (1975)
 * Music-Epic about the Devil "La trahison orale" (1983)

For orchestra

 * Dos piezas for orchestra (1952)
 * Heterophonie for orchestra (1959–61)
 * Zehn Märsche, um den Sieg zu verfehlen (Ten marches in order to miss victory), for brass orchestra (1979)
 * Les idées fixes, rondo for orchestra (1988/89)
 * Opus 1.991 for orchestra (1990)
 * Konzertstück (Concert piece), for timpani and orchestra (1990–92)
 * Études for orchestra (I 1992, II 1995/96, III 1996)
 * Fremde Töne & Widerhall (Strange sounds and echo), for orchestra (2005)

Chamber music

 * String Sextet (1953–57)
 * Transición II for piano, percussion, and two tapes (1958–59)
 * Sonant for guitar, harp, contrabass, and skin instruments (1960)
 * Improvisation ajoutée for organist and 2–3 "registrants" (1961–62)
 * Match for three players (two celli and percussionist-umpire) (1964)
 * Musik für Renaissance-Instrumente, for two up to twenty-two instruments (1965–66)
 * String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 (1965–67)
 * Der Schall for five players performing on 54 plucked-string, percussion, and wind instruments (1968)
 * Acustica for experimental sound-producers and loud-speakers (1968–70)
 * Atem for a wind instrument (1969–70)
 * Morceau de concours for 1 or 2 trumpets (1968–72)
 * 1898 for children's voices and instruments (1972–73)
 * Dressur, trio for wood percussion (1977)
 * Rrrrrrr...: 5 Jazzstucke for clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, violin and piano (1981–1982)
 * Rrrrrrr..., six duos for two percussionists (1982)
 * Pan a tutti i Papagheni, for piccolo and string quartet (1985)
 * Piano Trio No. 1 (1985)
 * String Quartet No. 3 (1986)
 * Aus dem Nachlass, pieces for viola, cello, and contrabass (1986)
 * Zwei Akte grand duo for sopranino, alto, baritone saxophones and harp (1988–89)
 * Phantasiestück for flute and piano (1989)
 * ..., den 24.XII.1931 mutilated news for baritone and instruments (1991)
 * String Quartet No. 4 (1993)
 * Schattenklänge, three pieces for bass clarinet (1995) [14']
 * Art bruit for a percussionist and an assistant (1994/95)
 * Piano Trio No. 2 (2001)

Vocal works

 * Blue's Blue, for voice and glass trumpet, E-flat clarinet and alto saxophone, acoustic guitar and violin (1978–79)
 * Fürst Igor – Strawinsky, a requiem for Igor Strawinsky for bass and instruments (1982)
 * Sankt-Bach-Passion for soloists, choirs and orchestra (premiered in 1985)
 * Ein Brief for mezzo soprano and orchestra (1985–86)
 * Mitternachtsstük for voices and instruments on four fragments from the diary of Robert Schumann (1980–81/86)
 * Schwarzes Madrigal (Black madrigal), for choir, trumpet, tuba and 2 percussionists (1998/99)
 * In der Matratzengruft for tenor and ensemble (2008)

Film

 * Antithese (1965)
 * Match (1966)
 * Solo (1967)
 * Duo (1968)
 * Hallelujah (1969)
 * Ludwig van (1970)
 * Tactil (1971)
 * Zwei-Mann-Orchester (1973)
 * Unter Strom (1975)
 * Kantrimiusik (1976)
 * Phonophonie (1979)
 * Blue's Blue (1981)
 * MM 51 (1983)
 * Szenario: Un chien andalou (1982)
 * Er: Television play on A Radio Fantasy (1984)
 * Dressur (1985)
 * Mitternachtsstük (1987)
 * Répertoire (1989)
 * Bestiarium (2000)