Carmina Burana
  • Composer
    • Childhood and Youth
    • Early Years
    • Trining and Study Years
    • Educational Work
    • Nazi Era
    • Denazification
    • School Radio Broadcasts
    • After WWII
    • Other Significant Works
  • Historical Circumstances
    • Material
    • Language
    • Background
    • Critical Reception
  • Performing Forces
  • Analysis
    • Overview
    • Prelude
    • Part I
    • Part II.
    • Part III.
    • Finale
    • Text
  • Work Cited

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

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