Educational Work
- 1924 Dorothee Gunter and Orff founded the Gunther School for gymnastics, music, and dance in Munich
- Worked there as head of the music department until death
- Here is where he began to develop theories of music education
- Synthesis of music, language, and movement
- Regeneration of music through movement, with aid of dance
- Orff instrument
- 1925 Orff's German version, Orpheus, was staged under Orff's direction in Mannheim, using some of the instruments that had been used in the original 1607 performance
- 1926 began student relationship with Guniold Keetman; her ideas helped form Orff's fundamental principles of music education
- Composed using "Orff instruments"-glockenspiel, metallophone, recorder and body percussion
- 1927 Performance of Entrada (orchestration of William Byrd's "The Bells'')
- 1930 Orff published a manual titled Schulwerk, in which he shares his method of conducting
- 1932-33 made musical director of Munich Bach Socity
- 1934 wrote music for Olympic festival "Einzug und Reigen"