Orff1July, 895 10 was born in an artistic soldier's family in Munich. Influenced by the family environment, carl orff became interested in music and drama from an early age, which laid the foundation for him to become a musical master. Orff is basically a self-taught master. From youth to youth, he studied the works of the masters through self-study, and stubbornly sought his own unique artistic expression language in the constant exploration of the styles of the masters: "the kind of" wild "music and drama with primitive nature". He never confined himself to a certain major or discipline, composing, conducting, drama and dancing ... He paid great attention to and studied with great enthusiasm.
1924, Orff cooperated with his friend, the dancer Gunter, and established Gunter Gymnastics Music and Dance School in Munich, namely "Gunter School". There, Orff began a series of attempts to reform music education, such as new rhythm teaching and the experiment of combining action with music. In music, the most prominent thing is to highlight rhythmic instruments in music and action teaching. In order to let students participate in playing music personally, he designed his own music by improvisation, and made a set of small band instruments that can be used for ensemble, mainly percussion. This set of teaching AIDS, once called orff instruments, is now world-renowned and has become one of the important symbols of Orff's music education system.
In order to let students design their own music and accompany the movements as much as possible, Orff found the source of compiling teaching materials from local and foreign folk music. He devoted himself to music creation and teaching. "Teaching works" and unique children's music teaching system, starting with rhythm training and improvisation, stimulate children's interest and awareness in learning music, and are widely adopted by countries all over the world. Most of his works are musicals, with simple techniques and rich artistic expression. 1930, the first edition of the textbook compiled by him and his lifelong partner Kaitman was published. As a basic music textbook exercise, this textbook guides people to know the original power and form of music. In this process, Orff's student-and the most important partner in her later life-Gulit Kaitman played a decisive role. From 1950 to 1954, five volumes of Orff-Schulwick were published, which were translated and published by European and American countries and introduced to all parts of the world. This is a fundamental event in Orff's music education system. 196 1 year, Orff College was established at Mozart University of Music and Plastic Arts in Salzburg, Austria, and the first Orff teaching method research and training center was established.