Karl Amadeus Hartmann
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Karl Amadeus Hartmann was a German composer. A major figure of the musical life of post-war Germany, he has been described as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century.
Bust of Hartmann in Munich
Carl Orff
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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 chi
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
…the music of young composers in the late 1940s and early 1950s, helping to establish such figures as Hans Werner Henze, Luigi Nono, Luigi Dallapiccola, Carl Orff, Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Luciano Berio, Bernd Alois Zimmermann and many others. Hartmann also involved sculptors and artists such as Jean…
Orff c. 1970
Orff in 1940
Orff's grave at the Andechs Abbey church
Bust of Carl Orff in the Munich Hall of Fame (2009)