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Carl Orff: b/w portrait photo hand-signed by Carl Orff.
The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
4,1 x 5,8 inches, fine condition. (The writing at the reverse is not by Carl Orff).
Carl Orff (1895 -1982) was a 20th-century German composer, best known for his oratorio Carmina Burana (1937). In addition to his career as a composer, Orff developed an influential method of music education for children.
In the mid-1920s Orff began to formulate a concept he called Elementare Musik, or elemental music, which was based on the unity of the arts symbolized by the ancient Greek Muses (who gave music its English name) and involved tone, dance, poetry, image, design, and theatrical gesture. Like many other composers of the time he was influenced by the Russian-French émigré Igor Stravinsky.
He also began adapting musical works of earlier eras for contemporary theatrical presentation, including Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo (1607).
In 1930, Orff published a manual titled Schulwerk, where he shares his method of conducting. Prior to writing Carmina Burana, Orff edited 17th century operas. He had previously founded a school for gymnastics with Dorothee Guenther in 1924.
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