Anyone knowlegeable about Karl Orff?

Question

A friend of mine had a Karl Orff CD with songs that had lyrics in Old High German. What is this CD called, and where might I find it? I would also like to know pricing.

Answer 1

carmina Burama--you can get it anywhere, online or in big bookstores. "oh fortuna!"

Answer 2

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Carl orff ( July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982) is a famous German composer most known for his work Carmina Burana.

Orff refused to publicly speak about his past. What is known, however, is that Orff was born in Munich and came from a Bavarian family that was very active in the German military. His father's regiment band supposedly had often played the compositions of young Orff.

Moser's Musik Lexicon states that Orff studied at the Munich Academy of Music until 1914. He 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 music studies.

As of 1925, and for the rest of his life, 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" — entartet — implying a connection with the contemporaneous, and infamous, exhibit of Entartete Kunst). It should be noted that 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 — others refused to cooperate in this. But then again, Orff had already composed music for this play as early as 1917 and 1927, long before this was a favour for the Nazi government.

Orff was a personal friend of Kurt Huber, one of the founders of the resistance movement Die Weiße Rose (the White Rose), and who was condemned to death by the Volksgerichtshof and executed by the Nazis in 1943. After World War II, Orff claimed that he was a member of the group, and was himself involved in the resistance, but there was no evidence for this other than his own word, and other sources dispute his claim

Orff is buried in the Baroque church of the beer-brewing Benedictine priory of Andechs, south of Munich.

Answer 3

Try Wikipedia

Answer 4

his most popular work is "carmina burana". part of the music was played during the olympic ceremonies.