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Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition


The Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition is based at the Ludwig van Beethoven Institute for Piano in Music Education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Since 2010, it has been dedicated to the creation of new piano literature for children or young people.

The task is to compose a piano work that can be easily realized in the classroom and that provides young players with adequate artistic access to contemporary music. and thus provides young players with adequate artistic access to the music of the present.

What is special about this competition is its high standard of fairness and transparency as well as its unusual format. The submission takes place digitally and the identities of the winners are revealed to the international jury only after their decision.

The presentation of the compositions and the final round takes place at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and is streamed live on the Internet. The public discussion of the jury members is conducted in English.

In addition to cash prizes awarded to the winners, the winning pieces are published in cooperation with Universal Edition.

In 1995 Mauricio Kagel was a guest of the Vienna Days of Contemporary Piano Music. A second visit was planned, but did not take place due to his passing in 2008. The competition was subsequently named in memory of Mauricio Kagel.

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