(1-23 of 23 song lyrics)Average rating for Carl Orff songs is 7.75/10 [264 votes]. Selected popular Carl Orff song of Tuesday, November 5 2024 is "Carmina Burana 19. Si Puer Cum Puellula".
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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 wi... read more