Composer Peter Schindler on this separate edition from Perpetuum mobile:
“O Fortuna” (text no. 17 in the Codex Buranus) is a rhythmic strophic song. The text has been world famous since Carl Orff used it at the beginning of his work Carmina Burana in 1935. At the time it was still assumed that the manuscript began with this text and the miniature illumination of the Wheel of Fortune. This error was later corrected, when it was established that the original order of the manuscript's 112 parchment pages had been disturbed over the centuries.
The famous miniature of the wheel of fortune is decorated with a rhymed hexameter: “regnabo, regno, regnavi, sum sine regno” (I will rule, I rule, I have ruled, I am without dominion). This incisive illustration with Fortuna, the mistress of the world (Imperatrix mundi) in the center, was originally to be found in the middle of the group of moral-satirical poems.
In the poem, the rotating wheel of the goddess Fortuna is allegorically represented in the first stanza by the moon with its changing phases. By the next stanza the poem is already taking the form of a personal lament. In the third stanza there is a call to join in the grief over the unlucky fallen ones, a typical feature of laments. The accentuated and receding setting in a marking of allegro con bravura expresses the constant changes, circling, drifting and succeeding phases of world events.
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Peter Schindler
| 1960Composer, pianist and organist Peter Schindler writes and performs music for ballets and theatrical performances, films and dramatic recordings, instrumental and choral arrangements, chansons and sacred works. He is particularly passionate about his compositions for children and young adults, which has come to comprise hundreds of humourous children’s songs (Kinderhits mit Witz). His full-length musicals include Geisterstunde auf Schloss Eulenstein (Witching Hour at Eulenstein Castle), Max und die Käsebande (Max and the Cheese Gang), König Keks (Cookie King), Zirkus Furioso (Circus Allegro), and SCHOCKORANGE. These musicals are some of the most frequently played pieces of their kind by children’s and youth choirs in German-speaking theaters and schools. With his first English musical Circus Allegro, Peter’s hugely sucessful work for all kids under 100 is now also accessible to audiences around the world.
For further information visit: http://peter-schindler.de/
We asked the composer 6 questions, read them here in our blog: https://blog.carus-verlag.com/en/personalities/5-questions-for-peter-schindler/
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