Werner Kaegi (composer)

This article is about the composer. For the historian, see Werner Kaegi.

Werner Kaegi
Background information
Birth nameWerner Kaegi
Born(1926-06-17)17 June 1926
Uznach, in the St. Gallen canton, Switzerland
Died16 March 2024(2024-03-16) (aged 97)
Aubais, France
Genreselectroacoustic, acousmatic, classical, electronic
Occupation(s)composer, educator, musicologist, software developer

Werner Kaegi (17 June 1926 – 16 March 2024) was a Swiss electronic composer, musicologist and educator. During the 1960s, he promoted electronic music in his home country. In the 1970s, as a composer and researcher at Utrecht's Institute of Sonology, The Netherlands, he developed pioneering programs in the field of computer-generated music.