What was the first forename of the German composer Herr Orff?
Carl Orff Carl Orff Carl Heinrich Maria Orff (; – ) was a German composer, best known for his cantata "Carmina Burana" (1937). In addition to his career as a composer, Orff developed an influential approach toward music education for children. Carl Orff was born in Munich on 10 July 1895. His family was Bavarian and was active in the Imperial German Army. His paternal grandfather was a Jew who converted to Catholicism. In 1911, at age 16, some of Orff's music was published. Many of his youthful works were songs, often settings of German poetry. They fell into the style of
Carl Orff Richard Strauss and other German composers of the day, but with hints of what would become Orff's distinctive musical language. In 1911/12, Orff wrote "Zarathustra", Op. 14, an unfinished large work for baritone voice, three male choruses and orchestra, based on a passage from Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel "Also sprach Zarathustra". The following year, he composed an opera, "Gisei, das Opfer" ("Gisei, the Sacrifice"). Influenced by the French Impressionist composer Claude Debussy, he began to use colorful, unusual combinations of instruments in his orchestration. Moser's "Musik-Lexikon" states that Orff studied at the Munich Academy of Music until 1914. He then