BINGEN, Hildegard von
Name: BINGEN, Hildegard von (1098–1179)
Musical genre: Choral Music, Opera/Musical Theatre/Dance/Stage, Vocal Music/Art Songs
Country of birth: Germany
Notes:
Also known as Saint Hildegard; Sibyl of the Rhine. German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath of the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most-recorded in modern history.
She has been considered by many in Europe to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.
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