The work
‘I’ve amused myself making a list of composers who became famous for the least amount of music,’ shared the pianist Marc-André Hamelin recently on Twitter. ‘So far my winners are Orff (about 3 minutes, and y’all know which)…’ One could, of course, respond that Orff also wrote the widely familiar ‘Gassenhauer’ from ; however, for all the millions that might recognise this cheery xylophone and timpani piece from its appearance in the films and countless TV programmes, few know what it is called, let alone who wrote it. So perhaps Hamelin has a
