Dr. Werner Kaegi | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Werner Kaegi |
Born | 17 June 1926 Uznach, in the St. Gallen canton, Switzerland | (age 98)
Genres | electroacoustic, acousmatic, classical, electronic |
Occupation(s) | composer, educator, musicologist, software developer |
Werner Kaegi (born 17 June 1926) is 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.