Mauricio Kagel Collection
Kagel's Early Years in Buenos Aires: What the Documents Say
Contrary to Kagel's statements, several extensive files with musical sketches and drafts, along with other notes, have survived from the composer's time in Buenos Aires (until 1957). They provide insights into his earliest musical studies and contain fragments and approaches to unrealized compositions as well as initial sketches and drafts of accomplished compositions. Kagel's own published statements on the subject can be partially reconstructed from the documents but also partially contradict them.
The initial aim would be to catalogue the files entirely and compare them with the initial classifications made some ten years ago. Their connections to works carried out in Argentina or later can be identified on this basis.
Knowledge of Spanish is an advantage for studying the collection, but it is not essential.
Further information about the collection and contact to the curator Matthias Kassel