Antigonae carl orff biography

Born in Munich, Germany, on July 10, 1895; died of cancer, March 29, 1982, in Munich, Germany; son of Heinrich and Paula (Koestler) Orff; married to Lise Lotte; children: Godela (daughter).

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Education: Received degree from the Akademie der Tonkunst (Academy of Music), Munich, 1915; studied with Heinrich Kaminski, early 1920s.

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.

In the 1930s, Orff was composing works for the stage based on medieval Latin chants, and later revived the classic tales of love, lust, and blood from ancient Greek drama for modern audiences. Yet Orff's most famous work remains Carmina Burana, a 1937 homage to life's more earthy pleasures based on a long-lost collection of medieval songs.

The melodies he adapted into the stirring Carmina Burana have entered popular culture in the form of background music for television commercials