"O Fortuna" topped The People's Classical Chart in 2009 as the most-played classical music of the previous 75 years in the United Kingdom. It can be heard in numerous films and television commercials, and has become a staple in popular culture, setting the mood for dramatic or cataclysmic situations. Orff's setting of the poem has influenced and been used in many other works and has been performed by numerous classical music ensembles and popular artists. A performance takes a little over two and a half minutes. The tone is modal, until the last nine bars. It opens at a slow pace with thumping drums and choir that drops quickly into a whisper, building slowly in a steady crescendo of drums and short string and horn notes peaking on one last long powerful note and ending abruptly. It was first staged by the Frankfurt Opera on 8 June 1937. 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 is a complaint about Fortuna, the inexorable fate that rules both gods and mortals in Roman and Greek mythology. " O Fortuna" is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem which is part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana, written early in the 13th century. The selection covers a wide range of topics, as familiar in the 13th century as they are in the 21st century: the fickleness of fortune and wealth, the ephemeral nature of life, the joy of the return of Spring, and the pleasures and perils of drinking, gluttony,gambling and lust."O Fortuna" in the Carmina Burana manuscript ( Bavarian State Library the poem occupies the last six lines on the page, along with the overrun at bottom right. In 1934, Orff encountered the text in the 1847 edition of the Carmina Burana by Johann Andreas Schmeller, the original text dating mostly from the 11th or 12th century, including some from the 13th century. Michel Hofmann (de), then a young law student and Latin and Greek enthusiast, assisted Orff in the selection and organization of 24 of these poems into a libretto, mostly in Latin verse, with a small amount of Middle High German and Old Provençal. The first and last movements are called "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" (Fortune, Empress of the World) and start with the very well known "O Fortuna". Its full Latin title is Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanæ cantoribus et choris cantandæ comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis (Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magic images.) Carmina Burana is part of Trionfi, the musical triptych that also includes Catulli Carmina and Trionfo di Afrodite.
It is based on 24 of the poems found in the medievalcollection Carmina Burana. Written in Latin, old German and medieval French, they were never translated, but sung over the whole world.Ĭarmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff in 19. The lyrics were found in 1803 in an old German abbey. PART II: CARMINA BURANA FROM CARL ORFF: the most famous oratorio in the world. In 2002, Beethoven's autograph score of the Ninth Symphony, held by the Berlin State Library, was added to the United NationsWorld Heritage List, becoming the first musical score to be so honoured. Today, it stands as one of the most played symphonies in the world. They were taken from the "Ode to Joy", a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803, with additions made by the composer. The words are sung during the final movement by four vocal soloists and a chorus. The symphony was the first example of a major composer using voices in a symphony (thus making it a choral symphony). Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best-known works of the repertoire of classical music. Among critics, it is almost universally considered to be among Beethoven's greatest works, and is considered by some to be the greatest piece of music ever written. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (sometimes known simply as "the Choral"), is the final complete symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). PART 1: BEETHOVEN’S 9th SYMPHONY: a timeless masterwork whose end choir “Freude, schöne Götterfunken ….” (Ode an die Freude) became the symbol of the European community. And the way they succeed, also year after year, to capture their audience proves, without any doubt, the Excellency of their performance. This is the challenge of these musicians coming from Prague who specialized year after year in this specific and grand repertoire.
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