Composers Corner

Carl Orff

Carl Orff was born in Germany in 1895. He was a composer and educator who gained wide attention in 1937 with his magnum opus, Carmina burana. He studied music from childhood and in 1924 cofounded the Guntherschule, an institution devoted to exploring and teaching new correlations between movement and music. Orff was influential in using radio as a means of teaching musical principles. He died in 1982.