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Carl Orff

1895 - 1982

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Carl Heinrich Maria Orff (German: [kaʁl ˈɔʁf] ; 10 July 1895 – 29 March 1982) was a German composer and music educator, who composed the cantata Carmina Burana (1937). The concepts of his Schulwerk were influential for children's music education. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Orff is the 67th most popular composer (down from 55th in 2019), the 170th most popular biography from Germany (down from 132nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Composer.

Carl Orff is most famous for his "Carmina Burana" which is a work of choral music that was written in 1937.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Carl Orff ranks 67 out of 1,451. Before him are Anton Webern, Erik Satie, Gabriel Fauré, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Henry Purcell, and Dieterich Buxtehude. After him are Vangelis, Astor Piazzolla, Alessandro Scarlatti, Alexander Borodin, François Couperin, and George Gershwin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Carl Orff ranks 8. Before him are Zog I of Albania, Amin al-Husseini, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Juan Perón, and Buckminster Fuller. After him are Buster Keaton, Anna Freud, Ernst Jünger, Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Nikolai Yezhov. Among people deceased in 1982, Carl Orff ranks 9. Before him are Leonid Brezhnev, Ayn Rand, Romy Schneider, Ingrid Bergman, Philip Noel-Baker, and Henry Fonda. After him are Anna Freud, Roman Jakobson, Arthur Rubinstein, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Khalid of Saudi Arabia, and Philip K. Dick.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Orff ranks 170 out of 7,253. Before him are Alfred Jodl (1890), Meister Eckhart (1260), Max Born (1882), Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (973), Otto Hahn (1879), and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926). After him are Franz von Papen (1879), Olaf Scholz (1958), George II of Great Britain (1683), Caroline of Ansbach (1683), Max Ernst (1891), and Gerd von Rundstedt (1875).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Carl Orff ranks 13. Before him are Felix Mendelssohn (1809), Jacques Offenbach (1819), Richard Strauss (1864), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681), and Carl Maria von Weber (1786). After him are Johann Christian Bach (1735), Hans Zimmer (1957), Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928), Johann Pachelbel (1653), Heinrich Schütz (1585), and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714).

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