Carl Heinrich Maria Orff (German: [kaʁl ˈɔʁf] ⓘ; 10 July 1895 – 29 March 1982 [1]) was a German composer and music educator, [2] who composed the cantata Carmina Burana (1937). [3] The concepts of his Schulwerk were influential for children's music education .

Mar 25, 2025 · Carl Orff (born July 10, 1895, Munich, Germany—died March 29, 1982, Munich) was a German composer known particularly for his operas and dramatic works and for his innovations in music education.

Dec 19, 2008 · The American asked Orff if he could think of a single thing he had done to stand up to Hitler, or to distance himself from the policies of the Third Reich? Orff had done nothing of that kind....

Carl Orff was a legendary German composer best known for his operas and dramatic works. Check out this biography to know about his childhood, family life, achievements and other facts related to his life.

May 9, 2018 · Orff, Carl, eminent German composer and music educator; b. Munich, July 10, 1895; d. there, March 29, 1982. He began piano lessons in his fifth year, and later studied at the Munich Academy of Music (1912–14) and with Helmut Zilcher (1914).

Gunild Keetman (1904-1990) was a composer, performer and teacher who played a critical role in the development and spread of Orff Schulwerk (Orff Schoolwork). Carl Orff frequently said that the Schulwerk could not have come into being without Keetman’s essential contributions.

Nov 3, 2024 · Carl Heinrich Maria Orff (German: [ɔʁf]; 10 July 1895 – 29 March 1982) was a German composer and music educator, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana (1937). The concepts of his Schulwerk were influential for children's music education.

Carl Orff (1895-1982), equally at home as a composer and man of the theater, humanist, and educator, achieved worldwide fame with his Carmina Burana (1937).

Born in 1895 to an old Bavarian family, composer Carl Orff studied piano and cello while still a young boy. He later studied at the Munich Academy of Music, graduating in 1914. Orff is known primarily for one work: his oratorio, Carmina Burana.

The work of German composer Carl Orff predates the late twentieth- century renewal of interest in the haunting, unusual melodies of medieval-era religious music by several decades.