Carl Orff's Influence on the history of STUDIO 49
The encounter between Carl Orff and Klaus Becker-Ehmck, the subsequent founder of Studio 49, an instrumental manufacturing company in Grafelfing near Munich seems to have been a fortunate stroke of fate. While one individual had already achieved worldwide fame with the composition of Carmina Burana, the other individual was still studying mechanical engineering. People in the direct environment of Klaus Becker-Ehmck would have tended to describe music more as an "unprofitable activity", but the young student was so fascinated by the musical world that he could imagine himself as a singer and was highly attracted by the music genius of Carl Orff.
What happened next could provide a story for a film: two people encounter one another, cooperate in the construction of instruments and a new musical education concept spreads across the globe. When you listen to the stores related by the son of the original founder of Studio 49, you can clearly visualize the plot: Bernd Becker-Ehmck remembers as a young child sitting with his parents in Orff's composition studio and the composer playing a number of sequences on the grand piano. Suddenly Carl Orff stood up and started telling his friend, Klaus, about a stage work. He requested that Klaus construct instruments - instruments imitating specific sounds - which would create an underlying musical score for the content...
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