Composer Mauricio Kagel has won the € 30,000 culture prize
from Germany's Rhine Savings Bank, klassik.com reports.
Kagel, a 40-year resident of the Rhineland, is best know for his theatrical, film and radio music and is considered one of the most prolific of contemporary composers, klassik.com notes.
The 71-year-old composer, who was born in Argentina, taught at Darmstadt in the 1960s, led new music courses in Cologne from 1969 to 1975 and has a been a professor of music theater in Cologne since 1974.
Previous winners of the culture price include choreographer Pina Bausch and cabaret artist Hanns Dieter Hüsch.
— Michael Markowitz
"Kulturpreis für Mauricio Kagel"
klassik.com (via Yahoo Deutschland) - 18 July 2002
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