1895 - 1982
Carl Orff (German: [ɔʁf]; (1895-07-10)10 July 1895 – (1982-03-29)29 March 1982) was a German composer and music educator, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana (1937). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Orff has received more than 911,921 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Carl Orff is the 50th most popular composer (up from 52nd in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from Germany (up from 109th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Composer.
Carl Orff is most famous for his "Carmina Burana" which is a work of choral music that was written in 1937.
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Among composers, Carl Orff ranks 50 out of 1,228. Before him are Tomaso Albinoni, Arnold Schoenberg, Carl Maria von Weber, Orlande de Lassus, Gaetano Donizetti, and Erik Satie. After him are Jean-Philippe Rameau, Vincenzo Bellini, Georg Philipp Telemann, Guido of Arezzo, Anton Bruckner, and Domenico Scarlatti.
1671 - 1751
HPI: 81.65
Rank: 44
1874 - 1951
HPI: 81.48
Rank: 45
1786 - 1826
HPI: 81.47
Rank: 46
1534 - 1594
HPI: 81.44
Rank: 47
1797 - 1848
HPI: 81.08
Rank: 48
1866 - 1925
HPI: 80.95
Rank: 49
1895 - 1982
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 50
1683 - 1764
HPI: 80.71
Rank: 51
1801 - 1835
HPI: 80.53
Rank: 52
1681 - 1767
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 53
991 - 1050
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 54
1824 - 1896
HPI: 80.41
Rank: 55
1685 - 1757
HPI: 80.40
Rank: 56
Among people born in 1895, Carl Orff ranks 2. Before him is George VI. After him are Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Juan Perón, Anna Freud, Richard Sorge, Buster Keaton, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Nikolai Yezhov, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Max Horkheimer. Among people deceased in 1982, Carl Orff ranks 6. Before him are Huang Xianfan, Leonid Brezhnev, Ayn Rand, Romy Schneider, and Ingrid Bergman. After him are Henry Fonda, Grace Kelly, Anna Freud, Roman Jakobson, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, and Philip K. Dick.
1895 - 1952
HPI: 83.04
Rank: 1
1895 - 1982
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 2
1895 - 1918
HPI: 80.38
Rank: 3
1895 - 1974
HPI: 79.67
Rank: 4
1895 - 1982
HPI: 79.48
Rank: 5
1895 - 1944
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 6
1895 - 1966
HPI: 78.71
Rank: 7
1895 - 1986
HPI: 78.43
Rank: 8
1895 - 1978
HPI: 77.68
Rank: 9
1895 - 1940
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 10
1895 - 1975
HPI: 77.45
Rank: 11
1895 - 1973
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 12
1899 - 1982
HPI: 88.19
Rank: 1
1906 - 1982
HPI: 85.53
Rank: 2
1905 - 1982
HPI: 84.20
Rank: 3
1938 - 1982
HPI: 82.13
Rank: 4
1915 - 1982
HPI: 81.39
Rank: 5
1895 - 1982
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 6
1905 - 1982
HPI: 80.36
Rank: 7
1929 - 1982
HPI: 80.36
Rank: 8
1895 - 1982
HPI: 79.48
Rank: 9
1896 - 1982
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 10
1916 - 1982
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 11
1928 - 1982
HPI: 78.02
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Carl Orff ranks 106 out of 5,289. Before him are Wilhelm Wundt (1832), Theodor W. Adorno (1903), Walter Benjamin (1892), Carl von Clausewitz (1780), Clara Schumann (1819), and Albert, Prince Consort (1819). After him are Erich Honecker (1912), Helmut Kohl (1930), Alfred Wegener (1880), Baron Munchausen (1720), Theodor Mommsen (1817), and Leni Riefenstahl (1902).
1832 - 1920
HPI: 81.02
Rank: 100
1903 - 1969
HPI: 80.97
Rank: 101
1892 - 1940
HPI: 80.97
Rank: 102
1780 - 1831
HPI: 80.92
Rank: 103
1819 - 1896
HPI: 80.90
Rank: 104
1819 - 1861
HPI: 80.87
Rank: 105
1895 - 1982
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 106
1912 - 1994
HPI: 80.69
Rank: 107
1930 - 2017
HPI: 80.68
Rank: 108
1880 - 1930
HPI: 80.64
Rank: 109
1720 - 1797
HPI: 80.60
Rank: 110
1817 - 1903
HPI: 80.52
Rank: 111
1902 - 2003
HPI: 80.52
Rank: 112
Among composers born in Germany, Carl Orff ranks 12. Before him are Robert Schumann (1810), Felix Mendelssohn (1809), Jacques Offenbach (1819), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Richard Strauss (1864), and Carl Maria von Weber (1786). After him are Georg Philipp Telemann (1681), Johann Pachelbel (1653), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714), Johann Christian Bach (1735), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791), and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710).
1810 - 1856
HPI: 86.35
Rank: 6
1809 - 1847
HPI: 85.00
Rank: 7
1819 - 1880
HPI: 82.74
Rank: 8
1714 - 1787
HPI: 82.68
Rank: 9
1864 - 1949
HPI: 82.41
Rank: 10
1786 - 1826
HPI: 81.47
Rank: 11
1895 - 1982
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 12
1681 - 1767
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 13
1653 - 1706
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 14
1714 - 1788
HPI: 79.29
Rank: 15
1735 - 1782
HPI: 79.06
Rank: 16
1791 - 1864
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 17
1710 - 1784
HPI: 76.25
Rank: 18