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”?).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
June 2023
Categories |