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Alois Ickstadt
Alois Ickstadt
German composer, pianist and music educator
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Eugen Jochum
Eugen Jochum
German conductor
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Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith
German-born American composer (1895–1963)
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Wolfgang Boettcher
Wolfgang Boettcher
German editor, musician and music educator
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Hans Pfitzner
Hans Pfitzner
German composer
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Christian Thielemann
Christian Thielemann
German conductor
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Carl Stamitz
Carl Stamitz
German composer of partial Czech ancestry
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Toshio Hosokawa
Toshio Hosokawa
Japanese composer of contemporary classical music
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Wolfgang Fortner
Wolfgang Fortner
German composer and conductor
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Max Strub
Max Strub
German concertmaster
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Rolf Riehm
Rolf Riehm
German composer and oboist
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen
German composer
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Hans Otto Jung
Hans Otto Jung
German viticulturist, jazz pianist, patron of music
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Hans Werner Henze
Hans Werner Henze
German composer
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
German composer
Carl Orff
German composer

Carl Orff

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German composer
Genres
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
Member of, past and present
Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

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.