Coincidences really exist!

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Sometimes they lead to impressive musical ideas: Carl Orff’s „Carmina Burana“ is one of the most performed works of music literature in the world today. Strictly speaking, it owes its creation to three fortunate circumstances. 1. „Moving“ of original manuscripts to Munich Christoph Freiherr von Aretin was sent to the Convent of Benediktbeuren in the course of secularisation in 1803 to transfer all valuable medieval manuscripts there to the Munich Court Library (today: Munich „Staatsbibliothek“). Among them was a manuscript with 119 leaves and 8 pictorial miniatures from the middle of the 13th century – mainly in Middle Latin, but Lesen Sie mehr …