Sound · Original Music Composer · Music · Opera
Born Jul 10, 1895
Active 1959–1982 · Awards: Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, honorary citizen of Munich, Bavarian Order of Merit, National Prize of East Germany, Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Bayerischer Poetentaler
Carl Heinrich Maria Orff was a German composer and music educator who is best known for composing the cantata Carmina Burana and formulating concepts of his Schulwerk, which became influential for children's music education.