![]() The texts, every bit as much as the musical settings Orff provided, have made the cantata controversial from day one. Mixing ancient German and crude “dog” Latin, it in no way corresponds to what you would expect monks to be writing, except perhaps on their toilet walls. These were, apparently, occasionally very liberal, so it would be interesting to hear them, to see if they give any inkling of a creative preparation for the unprecedented (and, as yet, unrivalled) Carmina Burana, which is, to all intents and purposes, his very first significant original composition.īoth title and texts were taken from a Thirteenth Century manuscript discovered in the monastery of Benediktbeuern (southern Bavaria) by Schmeller, who published it in 1847. Having discarded his earliest attempts at writing, his only forays into composition preceding Carmina Burana were his realisations of the music of Monteverdi. The Munich-born Carl Orff first gained prominence not as a composer, but as an educationalist, publishing (in the early 1930s) theories about encouraging musicianship in people through movement and musical improvisation (was this the radical stuff responsible for my suffering, at junior school in the 1950s, the squirming embarrassment of “Music and Movement”?). ![]()
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