Carl Orff

Musician

Forclassical music listeners, choral and orchestral enthusiasts, students of 20th-century music and music educators.
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The Profile

German composer and music educator best known for Carmina Burana and for developing the Orff Schulwerk approach to music education.

Born 1895, died 1982. Best known for Carmina Burana (1937) and for the Orff Schulwerk (music education).

The available review praises Orff's Carmina Burana as a revolutionary, rock-like 20th-century masterpiece, explains its medieval sources and Orff's reworking, and recommends the Eugen Jochum/Deutsche Oper Berlin recording. The review highlights percussion, choral declamation and the work's anti-romantic energy.