This work's composer first encountered the poems that would inspire this piece in the 1884 publication Wine, Women and Song; after which Michel Hofmann then helped write the libretto in Latin.
Its score requires no string instruments but two pianos and five percussionists. This work's composer first encountered the poems that would inspire this piece in the 1884 publication Wine, Women and Song; after which Michel Hofmann then helped write the libretto in Latin. This cantata, which is along with a setting of various Catullus poems part of the musical triptych Trionfi, has the same opening and closing movement, and calls fate "monstrous" and "empty." For 10 points, what is this musical work featuring the movement "O Fortuna", a work of Carl Orff?
Its score requires no string instruments but two pianos and five percussionists.
{Carmina Burana}