Celesta (1925), Richard Strauss's "Ariadne auf Naxos" (1912), and "Die Frau ohne Schatten" (1918), while "an excellent example of its beauty when well employed", is the Silver Rose scene in his "Der Rosenkavalier" (1911), Ferruccio Busoni's "Arlecchino" (1917) and "Doktor Faust" (1925), Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" (1936) and "Der Mond" (1939), Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amelia Goes to the Ball" (1937), Benjamin Britten's "The Turn of the Screw" (1954) and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1960), Conrad Susa's "Transformations" (1973), and Philip Glass' "Akhnaten" (1984). The keyboard glockenspiel part in Mozart's "The Magic Flute" is nowadays often played by a celesta. Since Earl
Carl Orff of considerable debate and analysis. His "Carmina Burana" was hugely popular in Nazi Germany after its premiere in Frankfurt in 1937. Given Orff's previous lack of commercial success, the monetary factor of "Carmina Burana"'s acclaim was significant to him. But the composition, with its unfamiliar rhythms, was also denounced with racist taunts. He was one of the few German composers under the Nazi regime who responded to the official call to write new incidental music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" after the music of Felix Mendelssohn had been banned. Defenders of Orff note that he had already composed music for