Carl Orff’s emotion while watching his most famous work, conducted by the young Italian maestro Riccardo Muti, in 1980. The German composer, born in 1895 and deceased in 1982, became world-famous for the cantata Carmina Burana. #riccardomuti #carlorff | History of Music

German fencing students getting their dueling scars, circa 1900. Dueling scars have been seen as a “badge of honour” since as early as 1825. Known variously as “Mensur scars”, “the bragging scar”, “smite”, “Schmitte”, or “Renommierschmiss”, dueling scars were popular amongst upper class Germans and Austrians involved in academic fencing at the start of the 20th century. Being a practice amongst university students, it was seen as a mark of their class and honour, due to the status of dueling soc