German composer

Carl Orff

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German composer

Genres

Opera

Awards Received

Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts

honorary citizen of Munich

Bavarian Order of Merit

National Prize of East Germany

Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt

Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art

Bayerischer Poetentaler

Austrian Decoration for Science and Art

honorary doctor of the University of Munich

honorary doctor of the University of Tübingen

Music

Member of, past and present

Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

Carl Orff (German: [ɔʁf]; (1895-07-10)10 July 1895 – (1982-03-29)29 March 1982) was a German composer and music educator, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana (1937). The concepts of his Schulwerk were influential for children's music education.