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Carmina Burana is a cantata composed in 1935 and 1936 by Carl Orff, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana.Its full Latin title is Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis ("Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magical images").
Carmina Burana ( / ˈkɑːrmɪnə bʊˈrɑːnə /, Latin for "Songs from Benediktbeuern " [ Buria in Latin]) is a manuscript of 254 [ 1] poems and dramatic texts mostly from the 11th or 12th century, although some are from the 13th century. The pieces are mostly bawdy, irreverent, and satirical. They were written principally in Medieval Latin ...
It is a complaint about Fortuna, the inexorable fate that rules both gods and mortals in Roman and Greek mythology . In 1935–36, "O Fortuna" was set to music by German composer Carl Orff as a part of " Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi ", the opening and closing movement of his cantata Carmina Burana. It was first staged by the Frankfurt Opera on 8 ...
In taberna quando sumus. Players and drinkers in the Codex Buranus. " In taberna quando sumus " (English: "When we are in the tavern") is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem, part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana, written between the 12th and early 13th centuries. [1] It was set to music in 1935/36 by German composer Carl Orff as part ...
Ecce gratum. " Ecce gratum " (English: "Behold, the pleasant") is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem written early in the 13th century, part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana. [1] It was set to music in 1935/36 by German composer Carl Orff as part of his Carmina Burana which premiered at Frankfurt Opera on 8 June 1937.
O Fortuna (Orff) Carl Orff in 1940. " O Fortuna " is a movement in Carl Orff 's 1935–36 cantata Carmina Burana. It begins the opening and closing sections, both titled "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi". The cantata is based on a medieval Goliardic poetry collection of the same name, from which the poem "O Fortuna" provides the words sung in the ...
wedding poems by Catullus, Sappho and Euripides. Premiere. 14 February 1953. ( 1953-02-14) La Scala, Milan. Trionfo di Afrodite (Italian for Triumph of Aphrodite) is a cantata written in 1951 by the German composer Carl Orff. It is the third and final installment in the Trionfi musical triptych, which also includes Carmina Burana (1937) and ...
Dum Diane vitrea. " Dum Diane vitrea ", also known as " Nocturne ", is a Medieval Latin song known only from the Carmina Burana, a thirteenth-century collection of poems and songs. Like most of the material in the Carmina, it is an anonymous piece, though some translators have speculated that it is the work of Peter Abelard.