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Carl Orff (10th July 1895–29th March 1982) was a German composer, most famous for his Carmina Burana (1937), and an important and influential music educator.
Orff was born in Munich and came from a Bavarian family that was very active in the German military. His father’s regimental band supposedly often played the compositions of the young Orff. He studied at the Munich Academy of Music until 1914, then served in the military during World War I. Afterwards he held various positions at opera houses in Mannheim and Darmstadt, later to return to Munich to further pursue his musical studies.
From 1925 Orff was the head of a department and co-founder of the Guenther School for gymnastics, music, and dance in Munich, where he worked with musical beginners. Having constant contact with children, this is where he developed his theories in music education.
While Orff’s association, or lack thereof, with the Nazi party has never been conclusively established, his Carmina Burana was hugely popular in Nazi Germany after its premiere in Frankfurt in 1937, receiving numerous performances (although one Nazi critic reviewed it savagely as “degenerate”, implying a connection with the contemporaneous, and infamous, exhibit of Entartete Kunst). He was one of the few German composers under the Nazi regime who responded to the official call to write new music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, after the music of Felix Mendelssohn had been banned, which in itself suggests where his sympathies lay; others refused to cooperate in this.
Orff was born in Munich and came from a Bavarian family that was very active in the German military. His father’s regimental band supposedly often played the compositions of the young Orff. He studied at the Munich Academy of Music until 1914, then served in the military during World War I. Afterwards he held various positions at opera houses in Mannheim and Darmstadt, later to return to Munich to further pursue his musical studies.
From 1925 Orff was the head of a department and co-founder of the Guenther School for gymnastics, music, and dance in Munich, where he worked with musical beginners. Having constant contact with children, this is where he developed his theories in music education.
While Orff’s association, or lack thereof, with the Nazi party has never been conclusively established, his Carmina Burana was hugely popular in Nazi Germany after its premiere in Frankfurt in 1937, receiving numerous performances (although one Nazi critic reviewed it savagely as “degenerate”, implying a connection with the contemporaneous, and infamous, exhibit of Entartete Kunst). He was one of the few German composers under the Nazi regime who responded to the official call to write new music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, after the music of Felix Mendelssohn had been banned, which in itself suggests where his sympathies lay; others refused to cooperate in this.
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miqmiranda wrote:
Carmina Burana is amazing!
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Polly-Molly wrote:
Кармина Бурана самая здоровская ;)
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flowerinurhand wrote:
O Fortuna forever and In Taberna Quandro Sumus
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Difuzija wrote:
<3
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Priamus wrote:
Now I realised where Magma got their sound from^^.
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wizardofxenia wrote:
Musica Poetica = beauty
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Owindwhispers wrote:
please >> I wnant simslar tracks to O Fortuna please ,, help me <3
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ilovemonday wrote:
woah he's still on tour?! cool! lol :) ingenius!
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x_Francy___x wrote:
semplicemente eccellente.
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M16A4 wrote:
Amazing...
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leatherbugs wrote:
SCHÖN
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Cloud286 wrote:
Increíble que este señor haya dado tal carácter al "O fortuna" y al "fortune plango vulnera" solamente octavando las voces y sonidos muy simples y disonantes a la vez, un compositor bastante admirable...
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Gamester wrote:
Hey! Care to join the new "American Classical Music" group? Check it out and join if you like! :o)
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rozlane_mleko wrote:
'De temporum fine comoedia' is sick. I love it! :)
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Pollo-man wrote:
Uff galan!!!!
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ClockSixOne wrote:
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MisterJunior wrote:
"Great composer. Too bad he only lived long enough to compose O Fortuna. He has a hopeful sound." Eh? He was 86 when he died and composed a number of other worthwhile pieces.
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kansho_bakuya wrote:
excelente compositor, para mi uno de los mejores!
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Equality7-2521 wrote:
Great composer. Too bad he only lived long enough to compose O Fortuna. He has a hopeful sound.
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Thornspire wrote:
o fortuna is not the only piece this man wrote I hope people realize [2]
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