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Conductor Marin Alsop wrote that it "begins with all forces at full throttle, then immediately scale back in an ominous warning repetition that builds to a climactic close". "O Fortuna" opens at a slow pace with thumping drums and energetic choir that drops quickly into a whisper, building slowly in a steady crescendo of drums and short string and horn notes peaking on one last long powerful note and ending abruptly. The repetition of the musical accompaniment draws a comparison to the spinning of the wheel. The Rota Fortunae appears in a version of the poetry collection known as the Codex Buranas. Orff was inspired both by the poem and the medieval symbol of the Rota Fortunae, or Wheel of Fortune, which the goddess Fortuna spins at random, causing some people to suffer while others find wealth. The Rota Fortunae which appears in the Carmina Burana. Scott Horton wrote in Harper's that the text of the poem highlights how few people, at the time it was written, "felt any control over their own destiny" while at the same time it "rings with a passion for life, a demand to seize and treasure the sweet moments that pitiful human existence affords." Music The cantata is composed of 25 movements in five sections, with "O Fortuna" providing a compositional frame, appearing as the first movement and reprised for the twenty-fifth, both in sections titled "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi". It was first performed by the Frankfurt Opera on 8 June 1937. Orff composed his Carmina Burana, using the libretto, in 1935–36. Carl Orff encountered the collection in 1934 and worked with a Latin and Greek enthusiast, Michel Hofmann, to select and organize 24 of the poems into a libretto. It is a complaint against the goddess of fortune, contained in the collection known as the Carmina Burana.


" O Fortuna" is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem written in the 13th century of uncertain authorship.
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