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‘Everything I’ve written to date, and which you’ve unfortunately printed, can be destroyed.
Orff carl biography of barack
With Carmina Burana my collected works begin.’ So Carl Orff told his publisher after the first performance of that work in the mid−1930s. His pride in this dynamic setting for soloists, chorus and orchestra of bawdy poems written by medieval Benedictine monks is understandable.
The pulsating rhythms and primitive melodic patterns of its opening number ‘O fortuna’ have become instantly recognisable. Born into a family of army officers, Orff studied composition at the Munich Akademie der Tonkunst before World War One.
Later exposure to music by Debussy and Schoenberg proved more stimulating.
Orff carl biography of barack obama
So too did the chance to conduct in the theatre. During the 1920s he conducted the Munich Bach-Verein and spent much time discovering and arranging music by Monteverdi and Schütz. In 1924 he co-founded a school for gymnastics, which enabled him to pioneer new ideas for educating children through