After WWII
- 1949 First performance of Antigonae
- 1950-60 Carl Orff supervised a master class for composition at the Munich Music College
- A substantial number of composers can be counted among his pipils both during this time and both before and after: Karl Marx, Werner Egk, Cesar Bresgen and Wilhelm Killmayer
- 1962,1963,1966 Gives lectures on Schulwerk abroad
- 1968 first performance of Prometheus
- 1972 honorary professor of University of Munich, awarded Great Cross of Merit by the Federal Republic of Germany
- First performance of De temporum fine comoedia
- 1975-81 Work on the documentation "Carl Orff und sein Wekrk" in eight volumes
- 1982 Died on March 29th in Munich, buried in the Chapel of Sorrow in the monastery church of Andechs