Werner Kaegi (composer)

Dr. Werner Kaegi
Background information
Birth name	Werner Kaegi
Born	17 June 1926 (1926-06-17) (age 97) Uznach, in the St. Gallen canton, Switzerland
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.