These poems, with their varied - and sometimes scandalous - texts, were immediately noticed, and, during the 19th and 20th centuries German philologists published several editions, translations and commentaries, as well as popular editions. It was at this moment that we hear for the first time of a particularly intriguing 13th century manuscript without a title: 112 parchment leaves containing Latin (and some German) poetry which fascinated scholars and was later baptized ‘Songs from Benediktbeuren’ - Carmina Burana. This was also the case at the Benedictine monastery of Benediktbeuren, in Bavaria, whose library was carted off to Munich in 1803. ![]() In 1937, the Bavarian composer Carl Orff premiered a staged ‘szenische Kantate’ which has since made Carmina Burana a household name but what did the original, medieval music (which neither Orff nor anyone else in his day had heard) sound like? Who composed it? Where does the name come from?ĭuring the secularisation of the German monasteries in the early 19th century, whole monastic libraries were absorbed by larger, secular institutions.
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