Editing Carl Orff (section)

===Relationship to pre-''Carmina Burana'' works===
Orff often said that, following a dress rehearsal for ''Carmina Burana'', he told his publisher the following: "Everything that I have written up until now and that you, unfortunately, have printed you now can pulp. With ''Carmina Burana'' begins my collected works."<ref>{{harvnb|Orff|1975–1983|loc=p. 66, Vol. IV}} (English translation from {{harvnb|Kohler|2015|p=114}}). Original language: "Alles was ich bisher geschrieben und was Sie leider gedruckt haben, können Sie nun einstampfen. Mit ''Carmina Burana'' beginnen meine gesammelten Werke." Vol. 4 of ''Carl Orff und sein Werk: Dokumenation'' was published in 1979, 42 years after the premiere; Orff added here that the statement had been "much cited since that time" ("inzwischen viel zitierten").</ref>{{efn|For two of the earliest known instances of this account appearing in print, see {{cite book|last=Liess|first=Andreas|year=1955|title=Carl Orff: Idee und Werk|language=de|location=Zürich|publisher=Atlantis Verlag|page=27}}. The same year as this publication (which Orff himself authorized), [[Everett Helm]] wrote: "In 1937 ''Carmina Burana'' was performed for the first time and with great success in Frankfurt am Main, and at that moment Orff 'disowned' all his previous work, with which he was now dissatisfied. Two pieces, ''Catulli Carmina'' and the ''Entrata'', were later revised and restored to grace, as were the Monteverdi arrangements. For all practical purposes, then, ''Carmina Burana'' must be regarded as his earliest work, and it has remained one of his most successful." {{cite journal|last=Helm|first=Everett|date=July 1955|title=Carl Orff|journal=[[The Musical Quarterly]]|volume=XLI|number=3|pages=286 (285–304)|doi=10.1093/mq/XLI.3.285 }}. Note that the 1943 stage work ''Catulli Carmina'' uses six of the seven earlier ''Catulli Carmina I'' a cappella choruses, but the majority of its material is newly composed.}} Michael H. Kater has called this statement into question, citing a lack of documentary evidence and the continuation of performances of Orff's previous works after the premiere of ''Carmina Burana'',{{sfn|Kater|2000|p=139}} although in fact most of these performances used revised versions.{{sfn|Kohler|2015|pp=115–116 and 130–32| |postscript=. A performance of ''Orpheus'' in 1938, however, used the pre-''Carmina Burana'' version. More strikingly, there was a concert in 1947 at the University of Mainz featuring one of the cantatas on texts of Franz Werfel and some of the a cappella ''Catulli Carmina'' choruses (presumably from one or both of the publications from the early 1930s rather than excerpts from the 1943 ''Catulli Carmina''); there is no evidence Orff was aware of this performance. See article signed Kr. (October 1947). "Der junge Melos-leser schreibt". ''Melos'', vol. 14, no. 12, pp. 349–350.}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Austin |first=William |title=Music in the Twentieth Century: From Debussy through Stravinsky |date=1966 |isbn=0-393-09704-8 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |location=New York|page=388}}</ref> Orff eventually qualified his oft-repeated statement: "So I had said this thoughtlessly, con leggerezza [i.e. "lightly"]: a remark that, as I well knew, was true and also not true. I only wanted to accentuate with it the meaning that the ''Carmina Burana'' held in my creations up to that point, as was clear to me myself."{{sfn|Orff|1975–1983 |page=66, Vol. IV (English translation from Kohler 2015, p. 115)|postscript=. Original language: "Ich hatte das con leggerezza so hingesagt: ein Ausspruch, der, wie ich wohl wußte, stimmte und auch nicht stimmte. Ich wollte damit nur betonen, daß ich mir selbst klar war, welche Bedeutung die Carmina Burana in meinem bisherigen Schaffen einnahmen."}} When asked about the quotation in 1975, Orff replied: "For the first time I had done exactly what I wanted, and I also knew that I had treated it right. Really there is nothing more to say."<ref>{{cite news |last=Konz |first=Martin |title=Auf den Mond zu fliegen ist elementar. Rückbesinnung auf die Ursprünge: Interview mit dem Komponisten Carl Orff |date=April–May 1975 |work=[[Neue Musikzeitung]]|language=de}} 24. Jahrgang, Heft 2, p. 3 (English translation from Kohler 2015, p. 114). Original language: "Ich hatte erstmals genau das getan, was ich wollte, und ich wußte auch, daß ich richtig behandelt hatte. Mehr gibt es da eigentlich nicht zu sagen." See also Seifert 1970, p. 376 (for reprint, see {{harvnb|Henkel|Messmer|2021|pp=52–53}}).</ref> Orff went on to revise many of his earlier works, and later in his career he reissued some of his pre-''Carmina Burana'' compositions with minimal revisions. One of his final publications was a volume of songs he had composed between 1911 and 1920.<ref>[https://www.schott-music.com/de/fruehe-lieder-noc37379.html ''Frühe Lieder'' (Early Songs)] published by [[Schott Music]] (ED 7024); see List of Compositions for details.</ref>