Música para la torre ('Music for the Tower'); in four parts: 1) For Orchestra [the Two Pieces from 1952], 2) Study for Percussion, 3) Ostinato for Chamber Ensemble, 4) ensayo de musica concreta (Essay in musique concrète)
Muertos de Buenos Aires, music for the film of the same title by Alejandro Sanderman
Cinco cantos de Génesis for voice and piano
Four Pieces for piano
1955
Drei Klangstudien ('Three Studies in Sound')
Ocho motetes apócrifos for mixed choir
1956
De ruina mundis: Cantata for voice and instruments
Aforismos de Apollinaire for clarinet and piano
Prelude No. 1 for bandoneon
Cuatro piezas breves for strings
Elegía para clarinete solo for clarinet solo
1958
Anagrama for vocal soloists, speaking choir and chamber ensemble
1959
Transición II for piano, percussion and two tape recorders
1960
Transición I for electronic sounds
Sur scène: Chamber music theatre piece
Sonant (1960/...) for guitar, double bass, harp, and skin instruments
Pandorasbox (Bandoneonpiece) for bandoneon
Journal de théâtre: Collection of situations for instruments, actors and props; later to comprise 'Pas de cinq' (1965), 'Camera oscura' (1965), 'Die Himmelsmechanik' (1965), 'Variaktionen' (1967) and 'Kommentar und Extempore' (1967)
Le Bruit: Invection pour toute sorte de sources sonores et expressions injurieuses (unpublished, unperformed)
1961
Mimetics (Metapiece) for piano; a) for solo piano, b) interrupted by other compositions, c) as Metapiece (Mimetics), simultaneous with other compositions by Kagel or other composers
Heterophonie for orchestra
1962
Improvisation ajoutée for organ; rev. 1968
Antithese; a) Music for electronic and public sounds; b) Play for one actor with electronic and public sounds
1964
Phonophonie: Four melodramas for two voices and other sound sources; rev. 1965; radiophonic version 1965
Die Frauen ('The Women'): Theatrical piece for ladies for voices and instruments (unpublished, unperformed)
Prima vista for slide pictures and indeterminate number of sound sources
Diaphonie Nos 1-3 for choir and/or orchestra and slide projectors
Match for three players
Composition und Decomposition: A reading piece
1965
Tremens; a) Scenic montage of a test for two actors, electric instruments, percussion, tapes and slide projection; b) Variaktionen über Tremens: Scenic montage of a test for two actors, tapes and slide projection; c) Musik aus Tremens [instrumental version with tapes ad lib]
'Pas de cinq': Walking scene for five actors; part of Journal de théâtre (1960)
'Die Himmelsmechanik' ('The Mechanism of the Sky'): Composition with stage décors; part of Journal de théâtre (1960)
'Camera oscura': Chromatic play for light sources and actors; part of Journal de théâtre (1960)
Mirum for tuba
1966
Music for renaissance instruments for 23 players; alt. Chamber Music for Renaissance Instruments for 2-22 players
1967
String Quartet I/II
'Kommentar und Extempore' ('Commentary and Extempore'): Monologues with gestures; part of Journal de théâtre (1960)
'Variaktionen' ('Vari-actions') for singers and actors; part of Journal de théâtre (1960)
Fantasy for organ with obbligati
Montage for various sound sources [combination of several of Kagel's instrumental compositions]; Montage à titre de spectacle [version with theatrical works]
1968
Hallelujah for voices
Der Schall ('Sound') for five players
Privat for lonely listener
Ornithologica multiplicata for exotic and indigenous birds
1969
Synchronstudie ('Study in Synchronicity') for singer, Foley artists and film projection
Unter Strom ('Under Current') for three players
(Hörspiel) Ein Aufnahmezustand (1. Dosis) ('(Radio Play) A State of Recording (first dose)')
1970
Ludwig van: Homage by Beethoven
Acustica: Music for experimental sound producers, loudspeakers and two to five players
Klangwehr ('Sound Defence') for marching music corps
Tactil for three
Atem ('Breath') for one wind player
Staatstheater: Scenic composition; constituents:
'Répertoire': Theatrical concert piece
'Einspielungen' ('Recordings'): Music for loudspeakers
'Ensemble' for 16 voices
'Debüt' for 60 voices
'Saison' ('Season'): Singspiel in 65 scenes
'Spielplan' ('Programme'): Instrumental music in action
'Kontra → Danse': Ballet for non-dancers
'Freifahrt' ('Free Ride'): Gliding chamber music
'Parkett' ('Stalls'): Concert mass scenes
1971
(Hörspiel) Ein Aufnahmezustand (2. und 3. Dosis)
Probe ('Rehearsal') for an improvised collective; radiophonic version 1972
Morceau de concours for one or two trumpeters; rev. 1992
Guten Morgen! ('Good morning!'): radio play consisting of advertisements
1972
Programm: conversations with chamber music; sections:
'Abend' ('Evening') for vocal double quartet, trombone quintet, electric organ and piano
'Aus Zungen Stimmen' ('From Tongues Voices') for accordion quintet
'Charakterstück' ('Character Piece') for zither quartet
'Gegenstimmen' ('Countervoices') for mixed choir and obligatory harpsichord
'General Baß for continuing instrumental sounds
'Die Mutation' ('The Mutation') for men's (and/or boys') voices and obligatory piano
'Musi' for plucking orchestra
'Recitativarie' for singing harpsichordist
'Siegfriedp' for violoncello
'Unguis incarnatus est' for piano and...[bass instrument]
'Vom Hörensagen' ('Hearsay') for women's (and/or girls') choir and obligatory harmonium
Exotica for extra-European instruments
Con Voce for three mute players
Variationen ohne Fuge ('Variations without Fugue') for large orchestra on Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel for piano Op. 24 by Johannes Brahms (1861/62)
1973
1898 for children's voices and instruments; rev. 1996
Zwei-Mann-Orchester ('Two-Man-Orchestra') for two one-man-orchestras
1975
Soundtrack: A filmic radio play
Mare nostrum: Discovery, pacification and conversion of the Mediterranean region by a tribe from Amazonia [music theatre]
Kantrimiusik: Pastoral for voices and instruments
1976
Bestiarium: Acoustic fables on two stages
Zählen und Erzählen ('Counting and Recounting') for non-grownups [music theatre by children]
Die Umkehrung Amerikas ('The Reversal of America'): Epic radio play
MM 51: A piece of film music for piano
1977
An Tasten ('On Keys'): Piano etude
Quatre degrés ('Four Stages'); sections:
'Dressur' ('Dressage'): Percussion trio for wooden instruments
'Présentation' for two
'Déménagement' ('Removal'): Silent play for stage workers
'Variété': Concert show for artistes and musicians
1978
Tango Alemán for voice, violin, bandoneon, and piano
Ex-Position; constituents:
'Die Rhythmusmaschinen' ('The Rhythm Machines'): Action for gymnasts, drum machines, and percussionists
'Chorbuch' ('Choir Book') for vocal ensemble and keyboard instruments
'Zehn Marsche, um den Sieg zu verfehlen' ('Ten Marches to Miss the Victory') for winds and percussion; from Der Tribun (1979)
Die Erschöpfung der Welt: Theatrical illusion in one act
1979
Blue's Blue: An ethnomusicological reconstruction for four players
Klangwölfe ('Sound Wolves') for violin and piano
Der Tribun ('The Tribune'): Radio play for a political orator, marching sounds and loudspeakers
Vox Humana? Cantata for solo loudspeaker, women's voices and orchestra
Aus Deutschland: lieder opera
1981
Mitternachtsstük for voices and instruments on fragments from the diaries of Robert Schumann (1828); fourth movement added in 1986
Finale with chamber ensemble
1982
Rrrrrrr...
a) A radio fantasy (with 41 pieces):
11 pieces for winds, double basses and percussion: 'Raccontando', 'Rauschpfeifen', 'Rejdovák', 'Register', 'Réjouissance', 'Reprisen', 'Reveille/Retraite', 'Rhapsodie', 'Rheinländer', 'Ritornell l ', 'Ritornell 2'
Seven pieces for mixed choir (piano ad lib): 'Rrrrrrr...' , 'Requiem', 'Resurrexit dominus', 'Rêverie', 'Rex tremendae', 'Romance', 'Ring Shouts'
'Südwesten' ('South-west'); from Die Stücke der Windrose for salon orchestra
1994
Nah und Fern ('Near and Far'): Acoustic listening piece for bells and trumpets with background
'Westen' ('West'); from Die Stücke der Windrose for salon orchestra
'Norden' ('North'); from Die Stücke der Windrose for salon orchestra
Interview avec D. pour Monsieur Croche et orchestre; texts by Claude Debussy
1995
Serenade for three players
Schattenklänge ('Shadow Sounds'): Three pieces for bass clarinet
L'art bruit: Solo for two
À deux mains: Impromptu for piano
1996
Études Nos 2–3 for large orchestra
Orchestrion-Straat for chamber ensemble
Auftakte, sechshändig ('Upbeats, six-hands') for piano and two percussionists; version for two pianos and two percussionists: Auftakte, achthändig (2003)
Eine Brise ('A Breeze'): Fleeting action for 111 cyclists. Musically enriched sport event in the open
1997
Ragtime à trois for violin, violoncello and piano
Playback Play: News from the music fair; radio play
Orgelmusik zu vier Händen ('Organ Music for four hands')
1998
Duodramen for voices and orchestra
Impromptu No. 2 for piano
1999
Semikolon: Action with bass drum
Schwarzes Madrigal ('Black Madrigal') for voices and instruments
Entführung im Konzertsaal ('Abduction in the Concert Hall'): Musical report of an incident
2000
Burleske for baritone saxophone and choir
2001
Quirinus' Liebeskuss for vocal ensemble and instruments
Broken Chords for large orchestra
Second Trio in One Movement for violin, violoncello and piano
Double Sextet for ensemble
2002
Das Konzert for solo flute, harp, percussion and strings
Der Turm zu Babel ('The Tower of Babel'): Melodies for solo voice
2003
Andere Gesänge ('Other Chants'): Intermezzi for soprano et pour l'orchestre
2004
Magic Flutes: Perpetual Canon Interrupted for 12
Vorzeitiger Schlußverkauf Unvollendete Memoiren eines Toningenieurs ('Premature Sale: Unfinished Memoirs of a Sound Engineer'); radio play
Motetten for eight violoncellos
2005
Fremde Töne und Widerhall ('Foreign Notes and Echo') for orchestra
Capriccio for two pianos
Fünf Vokalisen for a countertenor
2006
L'Invention d'Adolphe Sax for saxophone quartet and chamber choir
Divertimento? Farce for ensemble
Fifth string quartet in two movements
2007
Quasi niente for closed mouths
Verborgene Reime for choir and percussion
2008
In der Matratzengruft for tenor solo and ensemble
By genre
Stage works
Camera obscura chromatic play for light sources with performers (1965)
Staatstheater (1967/70)
Mare nostrum, Scenic Play for countertenor, baritone, flute, oboe, guitar, harp, cello and percussion (1975)
Kantrimiusik, pastorale for voices and instruments (1975)
Music-Epic about the Devil "La trahison orale" (1983)
For orchestra
Dos piezas for orchestra (1952)
Heterophonie for orchestra (1959–61)
Zehn Märsche, um den Sieg zu verfehlen (Ten marches in order to miss victory), for brass orchestra (1979)
Les idées fixes, rondo for orchestra (1988/89)
Opus 1.991 for orchestra (1990)
Konzertstück (
Concert piece), for timpani and orchestra (1990–92)
Études for orchestra (I 1992, II 1995/96, III 1996)
Fremde Töne & Widerhall (Strange sounds and echo), for orchestra (2005)
Música para la torre ('Music for the Tower'); in four parts: 1) For Orchestra [the Two Pieces from 1952], 2) Study for Percussion, 3) Ostinato for Chamber Ensemble, 4) ensayo de musica concreta (Essay in musique concrète)
Muertos de Buenos Aires, music for the film of the same title by Alejandro Sanderman
Cinco cantos de Génesis for voice and piano
Four Pieces for piano
1955
Drei Klangstudien ('Three Studies in Sound')
Ocho motetes apócrifos for mixed choir
1956
De ruina mundis: Cantata for voice and instruments
Aforismos de Apollinaire for clarinet and piano
Prelude No. 1 for bandoneon
Cuatro piezas breves for strings
Elegía para clarinete solo for clarinet solo
1958
Anagrama for vocal soloists, speaking choir and chamber ensemble
1959
Transición II for piano, percussion and two tape recorders
1960
Transición I for electronic sounds
Sur scène: Chamber music theatre piece
Sonant (1960/...) for guitar, double bass, harp, and skin instruments
Pandorasbox (Bandoneonpiece) for bandoneon
Journal de théâtre: Collection of situations for instruments, actors and props; later to comprise 'Pas de cinq' (1965), 'Camera oscura' (1965), 'Die Himmelsmechanik' (1965), 'Variaktionen' (1967) and 'Kommentar und Extempore' (1967)
Le Bruit: Invection pour toute sorte de sources sonores et expressions injurieuses (unpublished, unperformed)
1961
Mimetics (Metapiece) for piano; a) for solo piano, b) interrupted by other compositions, c) as Metapiece (Mimetics), simultaneous with other compositions by Kagel or other composers
Heterophonie for orchestra
1962
Improvisation ajoutée for organ; rev. 1968
Antithese; a) Music for electronic and public sounds; b) Play for one actor with electronic and public sounds
1964
Phonophonie: Four melodramas for two voices and other sound sources; rev. 1965; radiophonic version 1965
Die Frauen ('The Women'): Theatrical piece for ladies for voices and instruments (unpublished, unperformed)
Prima vista for slide pictures and indeterminate number of sound sources
Diaphonie Nos 1-3 for choir and/or orchestra and slide projectors
Match for three players
Composition und Decomposition: A reading piece
1965
Tremens; a) Scenic montage of a test for two actors, electric instruments, percussion, tapes and slide projection; b) Variaktionen über Tremens: Scenic montage of a test for two actors, tapes and slide projection; c) Musik aus Tremens [instrumental version with tapes ad lib]
'Pas de cinq': Walking scene for five actors; part of Journal de théâtre (1960)
'Die Himmelsmechanik' ('The Mechanism of the Sky'): Composition with stage décors; part of Journal de théâtre (1960)
'Camera oscura': Chromatic play for light sources and actors; part of Journal de théâtre (1960)
Mirum for tuba
1966
Music for renaissance instruments for 23 players; alt. Chamber Music for Renaissance Instruments for 2-22 players
1967
String Quartet I/II
'Kommentar und Extempore' ('Commentary and Extempore'): Monologues with gestures; part of Journal de théâtre (1960)
'Variaktionen' ('Vari-actions') for singers and actors; part of Journal de théâtre (1960)
Fantasy for organ with obbligati
Montage for various sound sources [combination of several of Kagel's instrumental compositions]; Montage à titre de spectacle [version with theatrical works]
1968
Hallelujah for voices
Der Schall ('Sound') for five players
Privat for lonely listener
Ornithologica multiplicata for exotic and indigenous birds
1969
Synchronstudie ('Study in Synchronicity') for singer, Foley artists and film projection
Unter Strom ('Under Current') for three players
(Hörspiel) Ein Aufnahmezustand (1. Dosis) ('(Radio Play) A State of Recording (first dose)')
1970
Ludwig van: Homage by Beethoven
Acustica: Music for experimental sound producers, loudspeakers and two to five players
Klangwehr ('Sound Defence') for marching music corps
Tactil for three
Atem ('Breath') for one wind player
Staatstheater: Scenic composition; constituents:
'Répertoire': Theatrical concert piece
'Einspielungen' ('Recordings'): Music for loudspeakers
'Ensemble' for 16 voices
'Debüt' for 60 voices
'Saison' ('Season'): Singspiel in 65 scenes
'Spielplan' ('Programme'): Instrumental music in action
'Kontra → Danse': Ballet for non-dancers
'Freifahrt' ('Free Ride'): Gliding chamber music
'Parkett' ('Stalls'): Concert mass scenes
1971
(Hörspiel) Ein Aufnahmezustand (2. und 3. Dosis)
Probe ('Rehearsal') for an improvised collective; radiophonic version 1972
Morceau de concours for one or two trumpeters; rev. 1992
Guten Morgen! ('Good morning!'): radio play consisting of advertisements
1972
Programm: conversations with chamber music; sections:
'Abend' ('Evening') for vocal double quartet, trombone quintet, electric organ and piano
'Aus Zungen Stimmen' ('From Tongues Voices') for accordion quintet
'Charakterstück' ('Character Piece') for zither quartet
'Gegenstimmen' ('Countervoices') for mixed choir and obligatory harpsichord
'General Baß for continuing instrumental sounds
'Die Mutation' ('The Mutation') for men's (and/or boys') voices and obligatory piano
'Musi' for plucking orchestra
'Recitativarie' for singing harpsichordist
'Siegfriedp' for violoncello
'Unguis incarnatus est' for piano and...[bass instrument]
'Vom Hörensagen' ('Hearsay') for women's (and/or girls') choir and obligatory harmonium
Exotica for extra-European instruments
Con Voce for three mute players
Variationen ohne Fuge ('Variations without Fugue') for large orchestra on Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel for piano Op. 24 by Johannes Brahms (1861/62)
1973
1898 for children's voices and instruments; rev. 1996
Zwei-Mann-Orchester ('Two-Man-Orchestra') for two one-man-orchestras
1975
Soundtrack: A filmic radio play
Mare nostrum: Discovery, pacification and conversion of the Mediterranean region by a tribe from Amazonia [music theatre]
Kantrimiusik: Pastoral for voices and instruments
1976
Bestiarium: Acoustic fables on two stages
Zählen und Erzählen ('Counting and Recounting') for non-grownups [music theatre by children]
Die Umkehrung Amerikas ('The Reversal of America'): Epic radio play
MM 51: A piece of film music for piano
1977
An Tasten ('On Keys'): Piano etude
Quatre degrés ('Four Stages'); sections:
'Dressur' ('Dressage'): Percussion trio for wooden instruments
'Présentation' for two
'Déménagement' ('Removal'): Silent play for stage workers
'Variété': Concert show for artistes and musicians
1978
Tango Alemán for voice, violin, bandoneon, and piano
Ex-Position; constituents:
'Die Rhythmusmaschinen' ('The Rhythm Machines'): Action for gymnasts, drum machines, and percussionists
'Chorbuch' ('Choir Book') for vocal ensemble and keyboard instruments
'Zehn Marsche, um den Sieg zu verfehlen' ('Ten Marches to Miss the Victory') for winds and percussion; from Der Tribun (1979)
Die Erschöpfung der Welt: Theatrical illusion in one act
1979
Blue's Blue: An ethnomusicological reconstruction for four players
Klangwölfe ('Sound Wolves') for violin and piano
Der Tribun ('The Tribune'): Radio play for a political orator, marching sounds and loudspeakers
Vox Humana? Cantata for solo loudspeaker, women's voices and orchestra
Aus Deutschland: lieder opera
1981
Mitternachtsstük for voices and instruments on fragments from the diaries of Robert Schumann (1828); fourth movement added in 1986
Finale with chamber ensemble
1982
Rrrrrrr...
a) A radio fantasy (with 41 pieces):
11 pieces for winds, double basses and percussion: 'Raccontando', 'Rauschpfeifen', 'Rejdovák', 'Register', 'Réjouissance', 'Reprisen', 'Reveille/Retraite', 'Rhapsodie', 'Rheinländer', 'Ritornell l ', 'Ritornell 2'
Seven pieces for mixed choir (piano ad lib): 'Rrrrrrr...' , 'Requiem', 'Resurrexit dominus', 'Rêverie', 'Rex tremendae', 'Romance', 'Ring Shouts'
'Südwesten' ('South-west'); from Die Stücke der Windrose for salon orchestra
1994
Nah und Fern ('Near and Far'): Acoustic listening piece for bells and trumpets with background
'Westen' ('West'); from Die Stücke der Windrose for salon orchestra
'Norden' ('North'); from Die Stücke der Windrose for salon orchestra
Interview avec D. pour Monsieur Croche et orchestre; texts by Claude Debussy
1995
Serenade for three players
Schattenklänge ('Shadow Sounds'): Three pieces for bass clarinet
L'art bruit: Solo for two
À deux mains: Impromptu for piano
1996
Études Nos 2–3 for large orchestra
Orchestrion-Straat for chamber ensemble
Auftakte, sechshändig ('Upbeats, six-hands') for piano and two percussionists; version for two pianos and two percussionists: Auftakte, achthändig (2003)
Eine Brise ('A Breeze'): Fleeting action for 111 cyclists. Musically enriched sport event in the open
1997
Ragtime à trois for violin, violoncello and piano
Playback Play: News from the music fair; radio play
Orgelmusik zu vier Händen ('Organ Music for four hands')
1998
Duodramen for voices and orchestra
Impromptu No. 2 for piano
1999
Semikolon: Action with bass drum
Schwarzes Madrigal ('Black Madrigal') for voices and instruments
Entführung im Konzertsaal ('Abduction in the Concert Hall'): Musical report of an incident
2000
Burleske for baritone saxophone and choir
2001
Quirinus' Liebeskuss for vocal ensemble and instruments
Broken Chords for large orchestra
Second Trio in One Movement for violin, violoncello and piano
Double Sextet for ensemble
2002
Das Konzert for solo flute, harp, percussion and strings
Der Turm zu Babel ('The Tower of Babel'): Melodies for solo voice
2003
Andere Gesänge ('Other Chants'): Intermezzi for soprano et pour l'orchestre
2004
Magic Flutes: Perpetual Canon Interrupted for 12
Vorzeitiger Schlußverkauf Unvollendete Memoiren eines Toningenieurs ('Premature Sale: Unfinished Memoirs of a Sound Engineer'); radio play
Motetten for eight violoncellos
2005
Fremde Töne und Widerhall ('Foreign Notes and Echo') for orchestra
Capriccio for two pianos
Fünf Vokalisen for a countertenor
2006
L'Invention d'Adolphe Sax for saxophone quartet and chamber choir
Divertimento? Farce for ensemble
Fifth string quartet in two movements
2007
Quasi niente for closed mouths
Verborgene Reime for choir and percussion
2008
In der Matratzengruft for tenor solo and ensemble
By genre
Stage works
Camera obscura chromatic play for light sources with performers (1965)
Staatstheater (1967/70)
Mare nostrum, Scenic Play for countertenor, baritone, flute, oboe, guitar, harp, cello and percussion (1975)
Kantrimiusik, pastorale for voices and instruments (1975)
Music-Epic about the Devil "La trahison orale" (1983)
For orchestra
Dos piezas for orchestra (1952)
Heterophonie for orchestra (1959–61)
Zehn Märsche, um den Sieg zu verfehlen (Ten marches in order to miss victory), for brass orchestra (1979)
Les idées fixes, rondo for orchestra (1988/89)
Opus 1.991 for orchestra (1990)
Konzertstück (
Concert piece), for timpani and orchestra (1990–92)
Études for orchestra (I 1992, II 1995/96, III 1996)
Fremde Töne & Widerhall (Strange sounds and echo), for orchestra (2005)