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Spring 2019 16 PAN PIPES By Jayne I. Hanlin W hen Carl Orff (1895-1982) died, his widow closed the door to his studio. It was reopened thirty years later aer her death. Since everything therein was exactly the way it had been while he worked there, it's as if he le a time capsule as his legacy. Apparently very shy, Carl Orff wanted a simple, rural life. Even though in 1937 he had composed his best-known and later very profitable secular cantata Carmina Burana, he was relatively poor in 1955. In that year he and his third wife, the well-known author Luise Rinser, purchased four hectares of property about two kilometers from the local train station in Dießen, Germany, where he lived until his death. A year aer their divorce in 1959, he married his secretary, Liselotte Schmitz, 35 years his junior. When she passed on, she le everything to the Carl Orff Foundation, which is responsible for Orff 's artistic works and helps fund his pedagogical work. About an hour away in Munich is its research facility. e popularity of building musicianship with the Carl Orff Schulwerk method, an integration of music, movement, speech, and drama, has spread to 48 countries. When I arrived at the Orff homesite, I was immediately greeted by Orff 's widow's two surviving cats, Snow White Orff and Peter Orff. ese felines continue to have free rein of the grounds and two the houses — a private studio and a family residence. A World of Music Carl Orff's Studio A Time Capsule Spring 2019 16 PAN PIPES