1895 - 1982
Carl Heinrich Maria Orff (German: [ɔʁf]; 10 July 1895 – 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 1,221,977 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Orff is the 50th most popular composer, the 111th most popular biography from Germany (down from 106th 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 1,216. Before him are Gaetano Donizetti, Tomaso Albinoni, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Carl Maria von Weber, Erik Satie, and Anton Bruckner. After him are Arnold Schoenberg, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Orlande de Lassus, Aram Khachaturian, Domenico Scarlatti, and Vincenzo Bellini.
1797 - 1848
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 44
1671 - 1751
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 45
1632 - 1687
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 46
1786 - 1826
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 47
1866 - 1925
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 48
1824 - 1896
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 49
1895 - 1982
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 50
1874 - 1951
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 51
1683 - 1764
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 52
1534 - 1594
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 53
1903 - 1978
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 54
1685 - 1757
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 55
1801 - 1835
HPI: 74.28
Rank: 56
Among people born in 1895, Carl Orff ranks 3. Before him are George VI and Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia. After him are Juan Perón, Richard Sorge, Buster Keaton, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Anna Freud, J. Edgar Hoover, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Wilm Hosenfeld, and Nikolai Yezhov. Among people deceased in 1982, Carl Orff ranks 7. Before him are Grace Kelly, Huang Xianfan, Leonid Brezhnev, Ayn Rand, Romy Schneider, and Ingrid Bergman. After him are Arthur Rubinstein, Roman Jakobson, Henry Fonda, Philip K. Dick, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, and Anna Freud.
1895 - 1952
HPI: 77.75
Rank: 1
1895 - 1918
HPI: 74.89
Rank: 2
1895 - 1982
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 3
1895 - 1974
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 4
1895 - 1944
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 5
1895 - 1966
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 6
1895 - 1986
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 7
1895 - 1982
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 8
1895 - 1972
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 9
1895 - 1978
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 10
1895 - 1952
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 11
1895 - 1940
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 12
1929 - 1982
HPI: 84.60
Rank: 1
1899 - 1982
HPI: 82.93
Rank: 2
1906 - 1982
HPI: 81.78
Rank: 3
1905 - 1982
HPI: 78.45
Rank: 4
1938 - 1982
HPI: 76.91
Rank: 5
1915 - 1982
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 6
1895 - 1982
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 7
1887 - 1982
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 8
1896 - 1982
HPI: 72.05
Rank: 9
1905 - 1982
HPI: 71.52
Rank: 10
1928 - 1982
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 11
1916 - 1982
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 12
1895 - 1982
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 13
Among people born in Germany, Carl Orff ranks 111 out of 6,142. Before him are Carl Maria von Weber (1786), Nikolaus Otto (1832), Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368), Willy Brandt (1913), Gottlieb Daimler (1834), and Baron Munchausen (1720). After him are Leopold Mozart (1719), Erich Honecker (1912), Ernst Röhm (1887), Frederick III, German Emperor (1831), George II of Great Britain (1683), and Walter Benjamin (1892).
1786 - 1826
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 105
1832 - 1891
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 106
1368 - 1437
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 107
1913 - 1992
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 108
1834 - 1900
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 109
1720 - 1797
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 110
1895 - 1982
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 111
1719 - 1787
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 112
1912 - 1994
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 113
1887 - 1934
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 114
1831 - 1888
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 115
1683 - 1760
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 116
1892 - 1940
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 117
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 Christian Bach (1735), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714), Johann Pachelbel (1653), Hans Zimmer (1957), and Paul Hindemith (1895).
1810 - 1856
HPI: 81.35
Rank: 6
1809 - 1847
HPI: 79.90
Rank: 7
1819 - 1880
HPI: 77.67
Rank: 8
1714 - 1787
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 9
1864 - 1949
HPI: 76.76
Rank: 10
1786 - 1826
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 11
1895 - 1982
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 12
1681 - 1767
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 13
1735 - 1782
HPI: 72.93
Rank: 14
1714 - 1788
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 15
1653 - 1706
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 16
1957 - Present
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 17
1895 - 1963
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 18