Orff's composition has been performed by many ensembles. The single song 'O Fortuna' (the Roman goddess of luck and fate ), from the movement 'Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi', is often heard in many popular settings such as films. You can easily improve your search by specifying the number of letters in the answer. Between 19, German composer Carl Orff composed music, also called Carmina Burana, for 23 of the poems. Below are all possible answers to this clue ordered by its rank. We think the likely answer to this clue is ORFF. The greatest secret of the work’s success was Orff’s turning to the primordial magic of powerful and bewitching rhythms, embodied not just through the use of the huge percussion section but also thanks to the clear and declaimed presentation of the poetic text. The crossword clue 'Carmina Burana' composer with 4 letters was last seen on the January 23, 2022. It is this image that forms a leitmotif in Orff’s cantata.Īttempting to revive music’s “ancient foundations”, the composer used only the very simplest expressive means – clear and laconic melodious formulas and harmony reduced to its basic elements. These poems in spoken dialects – in popular Latin, Middle High German and Old French – indicate that in the dim and distant past people’s interests were largely similar to what they are today: wine, women, gambling, success and wealth… But the main idea of the whole literary diversity lays in the fact that there is nothing everlasting in this world and man, with his trifling joys and woes is merely a plaything in the hands of capricious Fate, with the spinning Wheel of Fortune a symbol of its inconstancy.

This collection included works by vagrants and medieval wandering poets – students, scholars and nomadic monks. In the early 1930s the composer came across the 12 th- and 13 th-century collection of poetry Carmina Burana ( Songs from Beuern), found in a Bavarian monastery. The stage cantata Carmina Burana (1936) is Carl Orff’s most famous opus, bringing the composer international acclaim and, along with a few other 20 th-century masterpieces, immediately becoming part of the “gold reserves” of the popular classical repertoire. The Mariinsky Chorus, Children’s Chorus and OrchestraĬhildren's Chorus Master: Irina Yatsemirskaya Carl Orff describes his Carmina Burana, one of the most powerful masterpieces of the 20th century, as a scenic cantata.

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