Peter Schindler
O Fortuna

from: Perpetuum mobile - Songs from the Codex Buranus

Instrumentation Mixed Choir (SATB), Soprano Saxophone, Piano, Double Bass and Percussion
Optional Instrumentation Mixed Choir (SATB), Instrument in C, Piano, Double Bass, Percussion, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello and Double Bass
Composer Peter Schindler
Difficulty Level
(medium)
Edition Piano Score
Publisher Carus-Verlag
Order no. CV09298-30

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Description:

Language: Latin
Pages: 8
Release: 04.11.2024
Term: 2:30
Dimensions: 210 x 297 mm
Weight: 24 g
Genre: Classical Music, Classical Music of the Modern Age
ISMN: 9790007329655

The composer Peter Schindler on this single edition from "Perpetuum mobile":

"O Fortuna" (text no. 17 in the Codex Buranus) is a rhythmic strophic song. The text has been world-famous since Carl Orff placed it at the beginning of the setting of his work "Carmina Burana". In 1935, it was still assumed that the manuscript began with this text and the miniature of the wheel of fortune. This error was later corrected, as the original order of the manuscript's 112 parchment pages had become confused over the centuries.

The famous miniature, which shows the wheel of fortune as a motif, is decorated with a rhymed hexameter: "regnabo, regno, regnavi, sum sine regno" (I will reign, I am in possession of reign, I lose my reign, I am without reign). This concise illustration with Fortuna, the mistress of the world (Imperatrix mundi) at the center, originally stood in the middle of the group of moral-satirical poems.

In the poem, the revolving wheel of the goddess Fortuna is allegorically represented in the first stanza by the moon with its changing phases. Already in the second stanza, the poem presents itself as a personal lament. In the third stanza there is a call to join in the lament over the fallen unfortunates. This call is typical of laments. The setting of the text in an accentuated, fleeing allegro con bravura expresses the constant change, imitating the circling, bustle and different phases of world events.