Works stage

Gisei, das Opfer (music drama, after Jap. drama: Terakoya, trans. K. Florenz), 1913

Ein Sommernachtstraum (after W. Shakespeare, trans. A.W. Schlegel), 1917–62, final version, Stuttgart, 12 March 1964

Klage der Ariadne (after O. Rinuccini, Ger. trans. Orff), Mannheim, 16 April 1925, rev. Gera, 30 Nov 1940 [after C. Monteverdi]

Orpheus (3, after A. Striggio, Ger. trans. D. Günther), 1923–4, Mannheim, 17 April 1925; rev. Munich, 13 Oct 1929; rev. Dresden, 4 Oct 1940 [after Monteverdi]

Tanz der Spröden (Rinuccini, Ger. trans. Günther), Karlsruhe, 28 Dec 1925, rev. Gera, 30 Nov 1940 [after Monteverdi]

Carmina burana (cantiones profanae, 3 scenes, medieval Lat.), 1936, Frankfurt, 8 June 1937

Der Mond (kleines Welttheater, 1, Orff, after J.L. and W.C. Grimm), 1936–8, Munich, 5 Feb 1939, rev. 1970

Antigonae (Trauerspiel, 5, Sophocles, trans. F. Hölderlin), 1941–9, Salzburg, 9 Aug 1949

Catulli carmina (ludi scaenici, 3 acts and Exordium, Orff, after Catullus), 1941–3, Leipzig, 6 Nov 1943

Die Kluge: die Geschichte von dem König und der klugen Frau (12 scenes, Orff, after J.L. and W.C. Grimm), 1941–2, Frankfurt, 20 Feb 1943

Die Bernauerin (bairisches Stück, 7 scenes, Orff), 1944–6, Stuttgart, 15 June 1947

Astutuli (bairische Komödie, 1, Orff), 1946–8, Munich, 20 Oct 1953

Trionfo di Afrodite (concerto scenico, 7 scenes, Catullus, Sappho and Euripides), 1949–51, Milan, 13 Feb 1953

Oedipus der Tyrann (Trauerspiel, Sophocles, trans. Hölderlin), 1951–8, Stuttgart, 11 Dec 1959

Trionfi (trittico teatrale), Milan, 13 Feb 1953 [consisting of Carmina burana, Catulli carmina, Trionfo di Afrodite]

Comoedia de Christi resurrectione (Osterspiel, Orff), 1955, TV perf., Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, 31 March 1956, staged, Stuttgart, 21 April 1957

Lamenti (trittico teatrale), Schwetzingen, 15 May 1958 [consisting of Klage der Ariadne, Orpheus, Tanz der Spröden]

Ludus de nato Infante mirificus (Weihnachtsspiel, Orff), 1960, Stuttgart, 11 Dec 1960

Prometheus desmotes (1, Orff, after Aeschylus), 1963–7, Stuttgart, 24 March 1968

De temporum fine comoedia (Bühnenspiel, 3 pts, Orff), 1970–71, Salzburg, 20 Aug 1973, rev. 1979, final version, 1981, Ulm, 15 May 1994

Other works

Vocal: Lieder (various), 1v, pf, 1911–21; Zarathustra, Bar, male vv, orch, 1911–12; 3 Lieder (R. Dehmel), T, orch, 1918–19; Des Turmes Auferstehung (cant., F. Werfel), 2 Bar, orch, org, 1920 [rev. male vv, orch, org, 1921]; Cantata (Werkbuch I) (Werfel), chorus, pf, perc, 1930–32, rev. 1968; Cantata (Werkbuch II) (B. Brecht), chorus, pf, perc, 1930–31, rev. 1968–73; Catulli carmina I, 1930; Catulli carmina II, 1931; Concento di voci, chorus, 1931–56: Sirmio; Laudes creatorum; Sunt lacrimae rerum; Cantus-Firmus Sätze, 2–4vv, opt. insts, 1932, rev. 1954 [from Orff-Schulwerk]; Dithyrambi (F. Schiller), chorus, insts, 1955–6, rev. 1981; Stücke, speaking chorus, 1969; Rota, chorus, insts, 1972 [after Sumer is icumen in]; Sprechstücke, spkr, speaking chorus, perc, 1976

Inst: Tanzende Faune, orch, 1914; Leonce und Lena (incid music, G. Büchner), orch, 1919; Kleines Konzert, wind, hpd, perc, 1927, rev. orch, 1937 [based on 16th-century themes]; Entrata, orch, org, 1928, rev. 1940 [after Byrd: The Bells]

Collections: Orff-Schulwerk: elementare Musikübung (Mainz, 1931–4), collab. G. Keetman; Musik für Kinder, 5 vols. (Mainz, 1950–54), collab. Keetman

Principal publisher: Schott

Orff, Carl