... , and unlike Shostakovich, Orff never wrote music in praise of his leader or reflected anything to do with Nazi Germany, but his cantatas, which were controversial, were set to German medieval poetry (in Latin and Bavarian dialect), and classical texts by Catullus, Sappho and Euripides in the original languages, along with additional Latin lyrics by the composer himself. In fact it ... the language" coloured by a "jazzy atmosphere", caused many of Germany's opera intendants to fear staging the work after its premier. However, another reviewer who said that Orff's settings of bawdy mediev...

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