#Carmina burana composer full
While writing this complex work with the full Latin title Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis (P oems from Beuern: Secular Songs for Singers and Choirs Performed with Instruments and Magic Images) Orff created a unique musical stage work with specific dramaturgy, using a preserved medieval poetry codex consisting of as many as 254 poems composed in the secular Latin of vagabond students, Middle High German and Old French between the 11 th and 13 th century. Orff’s artistic configuration has consequently adapted the musical flow to such an extent that music as a sound phenomenon can only be fully realized through a dramatic context on stage, which can be hardly achieved by contemporary and purely concert renditions of Carmina Burana. In Carmina Burana, following Richard Wagner’s idea of the total artwork (Gesamtkunstwerk), Orff wanted to realize the concept of “theatrum mundi”, a “theatre of the world”, in which music is closely intertwined with movement and speech.
Carmina Burana by German composer Carl Orff (1895–1982) is today considered one of the most famous musical stage works (stage cantatas) completed in 1936, during the rise of Nazism, although the Nazis described Orff’s music as degenerate (“entartete Musik”).
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