Mauricio Raúl Kagel (Spanish pronunciation: [mawˈɾisjo ˈkaɣel]; 24 December 1931 – 18 September 2008) was an Argentine-German composer and academic teacher.

Mauricio Raúl Kagel was born on 24 December 1931 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into an Ashkenazi Jewish family that had fled Russia in the 1920s.

Among his students were Moya Henderson, Kevin Volans, Maria de Alvear, Carola Bauckholt, Branimir Krstić, David Sawer, Rickard Scheffer [sv], Juan Maria Solare, Norma Tyer, Gerald Barry, Martyn Harry, and Chao-Ming Tung.

[7] In 1991 Kagel was invited by Walter Fink to be the second composer featured in the annual Komponistenporträt of the Rheingau Musik Festival.

He described it as a "ballet for non-dancers",[This quote needs a citation] although it is in many ways more like an opera; the devices it uses as musical instruments include chamber pots and enema equipment.

Match (1964) is a "tennis game" for cellists with a percussionist as umpire,[6] also the subject of one of Kagel's films and perhaps the best-known of his works of instrumental theatre.