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Carl Orff

1895 - 1982

Carl Orff

Карл Генрих Мария Орф (нем. Carl Heinrich Maria Orff; 10 июля 1895, Мюнхен — 29 марта 1982, там же; похоронен в Андексе) — немецкий композитор и музыкальный педагог эпохи позднего романтизма, яркий представитель экспрессионизма. Прославился сочинениями для музыкального театра, наиболее известна его «сценическая кантата» «Carmina Burana». Подробнее в Википедии

His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2024). Carl Orff is the 67th most popular композитор (down from 55th in 2024), the 170th most popular biography from Germany (down from 132nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Композитор.

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 Композитор

Among композитор, 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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Anton Webern
1883 - 1945
HPI: 78.67
Rank: 61
Erik Satie
1866 - 1925
HPI: 78.54
Rank: 62
Gabriel Fauré
1845 - 1924
HPI: 78.20
Rank: 63
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
1710 - 1736
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 64
Henry Purcell
1659 - 1695
HPI: 78.16
Rank: 65
Dieterich Buxtehude
1637 - 1707
HPI: 78.14
Rank: 66
Carl Orff
1895 - 1982
HPI: 77.97
Rank: 67
Vangelis
1943 - 2022
HPI: 77.87
Rank: 68
Astor Piazzolla
1921 - 1992
HPI: 77.67
Rank: 69
Alessandro Scarlatti
1660 - 1725
HPI: 77.56
Rank: 70
Alexander Borodin
1833 - 1887
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 71
François Couperin
1668 - 1733
HPI: 77.09
Rank: 72
George Gershwin
1898 - 1937
HPI: 77.09
Rank: 73

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.

Others Born in 1895

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Zog I of Albania
POLITICIAN
1895 - 1961
HPI: 80.61
Rank: 2
Amin al-Husseini
POLITICIAN
1895 - 1974
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 3
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
NOBLEMAN
1895 - 1918
HPI: 79.19
Rank: 4
Santiago Bernabéu Yeste
SOCCER PLAYER
1895 - 1978
HPI: 79.08
Rank: 5
Juan Perón
POLITICIAN
1895 - 1974
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 6
Buckminster Fuller
ARCHITECT
1895 - 1983
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 7
Carl Orff
COMPOSER
1895 - 1982
HPI: 77.97
Rank: 8
Buster Keaton
ACTOR
1895 - 1966
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 9
Anna Freud
PSYCHOLOGIST
1895 - 1982
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 10
Ernst Jünger
WRITER
1895 - 1998
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 11
Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen
PILOT
1895 - 1945
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 12
Jiddu Krishnamurti
PHILOSOPHER
1895 - 1986
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 13
Nikolai Yezhov
POLITICIAN
1895 - 1940
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 14