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Benediktbeuern

Germany

Also known as: Benediktbeuren

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discovery of “Carmina Burana”

In Carmina Burana
…at the Benedictine monastery in Benediktbeuern (from which burana is derived), Bavaria. The two parts of the manuscript, though written at the same time, have been separated. The songs, rhymed lyrics mainly in Latin with a few in German, vary in subject and style: there are drinking songs, serious and…
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