Carl Orff
Carl Orff owes his posterity to his famous cantata Carmina Burana, a completely
anachronistic work in the middle of the 20th century. He was born into a
military family in Munich on July 10, 1895. His parents, both musicians,
encouraged him to learn the piano from the age of five, followed by the cello
and organ. Attracted more by operatic art than by the outdated formalism of
Academy of Music courses, he attended Wagner's opera Die Fliegende Holländer in
1909, the premiere of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde in 1911 and a performance
ofElektra conducted by Richard Strauss in 1914,...
