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It is a complaint about Fortuna, the inexorable fate that rules both gods and mortals in Roman 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 June 1937.
"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 movement. It was well-received during its ...
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 (CB) is a manuscript written in 1230 by two different scribes in an early gothic minuscule [3] on 119 sheets of parchment.A number of free pages, cut of a slightly different size, were attached at the end of the text in the 14th century. [4]
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Music composed by Carl Orff. Original Latin lyrics adopted to English (C) B. Schott's Söhne by permission of European American Music "Destiny: Ruler of the World – The Wheel of Fortune ()"
Do the opening and closing occurrences of "O Fortuna" differ at all? Are they notated separately in the score, or is the reprise "da capo al fine?" Just curious. Richard K. Carson 06:33, 25 February 2024 (UTC)