Schmeller invented the title Carmina burana for his edition. In 1847, Johann Andreas Schmeller, the Court Librarian, published a modern edition of the most remarkable of these acquisitions, an ample and richly illuminated parchment manuscript of poems, most in Latin, but with a fair number in Middle High German with some infusion of French and Greek. When the Bavarian monasteries were secularized in 1803, the contents of their libraries went to the Court Library in Munich.
It takes its full name from a Benedictine monastery founded there in 733. And the subtitle: “Secular songs to be sung by singers and choruses to the accompaniment of instruments and also of magic pictures.”īeuern is Benediktbeuern, a village in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps about thirty miles south of Munich. Carmina burana-with the accent in Carmina falling on the first syllable-means “songs from Beuern,” which is itself a variant of Bayern, the German name for Bavaria. THE BACKSTORY Let us begin with the title. INSTRUMENTATION: Soprano, tenor, and baritone solos, with brief solo assignments also for 2 tenors, baritone, and 2 basses a large mixed chorus, a small mixed chorus, a children’s chorus, and an orchestra constituted as follows: 3 flutes (2 doubling piccolos), 3 oboes (1 doubling English horn), 3 clarinets (1 doubling E-flat clarinet and 1 doubling bass clarinet), 2 bassoons and contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 3 glockenspiels, xylophone, castanets, ratchet, small bells, triangle, antique cymbals, crash cymbals, suspended cymbal, tam‑tam, tubular bells, tambourine, snare drum, bass drum, celesta, 2 pianos, and strings Edwin Outwater conducted, with the SFS Chorus, Pacific Boychoir, and soloists Nikki Einfeld, Lawrence Brownlee, and Hugh Russell John Nelson led, with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, and soloists Kathleen Battle, William Harness, and Brent Ellis. The Schola Cantorum Orchestra consisted largely of San Francisco Symphony players Giovanni Camajani conducted, with Maria Segale, Gordon Zimmerman, and Ronald Dutro as soloists, in a concert of the University of San Francisco Schola Cantorum at the War Memorial Opera House. Bertil Wetzelsberger conducted, with staging by Otto Wälterlin and sets and costumes by Ludwig Sievert, at Frankfurt Opera
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