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

Childhood and Youth

  • Born on July 10, 1895 in Munich
  • Sister Maria (Mai) born 1898
  • Descended from an old family of officers and academics
  • Both grandfathers were major generals and were active in different academic fields
  • Carl Von Orff-geodesy, mathematics and astronomy
  • Karl Kostler-historian
  • Regular(Father) who was an officer, played the piano and a variety of string instruments
  • Paula(Mother) was a trained pianist
  • She recognized and encouraged the musical talent of her son
  • Began piano lesson at age 5, followed by cello tuition two years later
  • Attempted to learn organ in 1900
  • Records of visits to concerts and the theater go back to 1903
  • At the piano, he discovered a wide spectrum of individual rhythmic and tonal activity and invention at an early stage.
  • Developed the need to record his inventions which he had created at the piano.

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