Editing Carl Orff (section)

====Relationship with Kurt Huber====
Orff was a friend of [[Kurt Huber]] (1893–1943), a professor at [[Ludwig Maximilian University]], with whom he worked since 1934 on Bavarian folk music.{{sfn|Rösch|2021a|p=17}} Together with Orff's ''Schulwerk'' associate Hans Bergese (1910–2000),<ref>{{harvnb|Kohler|2015|p=310}}. Bergese is credited for the piano arrangements in the publications of ''Musik der Landschaft'', on which he felt that he had not received due credit; see also {{harvnb|Kater|2000|pp=140–141}}.</ref> they published two volumes of folk music as ''Musik der Landschaft: Volksmusik in neuen Sätzen'' in 1942.{{sfn|Rathkolb|2021|pp=151, 153}}

In December 1942, Huber became a member of the student resistance movement {{Lang|de|Weiße Rose}} (the [[White Rose]]).{{sfn|Kohler|2015|p=238 n. 152}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Huber |first=Wolfgang |date=2009 |title=Kurt Huber vor dem Volksgerichtshof: Zum zweiten Prozess gegen die Weiße Rose |location=Essen |publisher=Die Blaue Eule |series=Historie in der Blauen Eule, Band 13 |pages=105–117}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Knoop-Graf |editor-first=Anneliese, and Inge Jens |title=Willi Graft: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen |location=Frankfurt am Main |publisher=S. Fischer |date=1988 |pages=88 and 300}}</ref> He was arrested on 27 February 1943, condemned to death by the {{Lang|de|[[People's Court (Germany)|Volksgerichtshof]]}}, and executed by the Nazis on 13 July 1943. By happenstance, Orff called at Huber's house on the day after his arrest. Huber's distraught wife, Clara (née Schlickenrieder, 1908–1998{{sfn|Kohler|2015|p=241}}), hoped Orff would use his influence to help her husband, but Orff panicked upon learning of Kurt Huber's arrest, fearing that he was "ruined" (''ruiniert'').{{sfn|DCamp|1995|pp=86–88 and 91–92}}{{sfn|Palmer|2008|loc=1:31:35}} Clara Huber later said she never saw Orff again,{{sfn|Palmer|2008|loc=1:33:46}} but there is documentary evidence that they had further contact.{{sfn|Rathkolb|2021|pp=136, 151–154}}{{sfn|Kohler|2015|pp=241–244}} On at least one occasion, she recalled that Orff had attempted to help her husband through [[Baldur von Schirach]]{{sfn|Kater|1995|p=28 |postscript=. Kater's source was a letter from Clara Huber dated 28 June 1994 (p. 28 n. 166), which is not cited in Kater 2000.}} (the highest-ranking Nazi official with whom he came into contact, and whom he met at least twice{{sfn|Rathkolb|2021|pp=81–84 and 87–89}}{{sfn|Kater|2000|pp=129–130}}), for which no further evidence has been found. In June 1949, Orff transferred his rights to ''Musik der Landschaft'' to Huber's family.{{sfn|Kohler|2015|p=243}}{{sfn|Karner|2002|p=256}} Shortly after the war, Clara Huber asked Orff to contribute to a memorial volume for her husband; he contributed an emotional letter written directly to Kurt Huber,{{sfn|Kater|1995|pp=28–29}}{{sfn|Kohler|2015|pp=436–438 |postscript=; here the letter is reprinted with English translation. For the original publication, see Clara Huber, ed., ''Kurt Huber zum Gedächtnis. Bildnis eines Menschen, Denkers und Forschers, dargestellt von seinen Freunden'' (Regensburg: Josef Habbel, 1947), pp. 166–168. The memorial book was reissued a few years after Orff's death with no change to his tribute; see Clara Huber, ed., ''»...der Tod... war nicht vergebens«'', (München: Nymphenburger, 1986), pp. 164–167.}} similar to what he did for Katz years later. Orff's ''[[Die Bernauerin]]'', a project which he completed in 1946 and which he had discussed with Huber before the latter's execution, is dedicated to Huber's memory. The final scene of this work, which is about the wrongful execution of [[Agnes Bernauer]], depicts a guilt-ridden chorus begging not to be implicated in the title character's death.<ref>{{cite book |last=Orff |first=Carl |title=Die Bernauerin |date=1974 |edition=Study score, final version (ED 6856) |publisher=B. Schott's Söhne |place=Mainz |pages=175–176}} See also {{harvnb|Kohler|2015|p=299}}.</ref>