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The Wiesbaden Codex, one of Hildegard of Bingen's two major collections of work. The German Benedictine abbess Hildegard of Bingen is among the most important medieval composers. She is the earliest known woman composer in Western classical music, and an important exponent of sacred music during the High Middle Ages.
Hildegard of Bingen OSB (German: Hildegard von Bingen, pronounced [ˈhɪldəɡaʁt fɔn ˈbɪŋən]; Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis; c. 1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and ...
A Feather on the Breath of God is an album of sacred vocal music written in the 12th century by the German abbess Hildegard of Bingen, and recorded by British vocal ensemble Gothic Voices with English soprano Emma Kirkby. It was released by the Hyperion Records label in 1982. [2]
This is a discography of Hildegard of Bingen's musical works. "Universal Man", illumination from Hildegard's Liber divinorum operum, 1165. Gesänge der hl. Hildegard von Bingen. Schola der Benediktinerinnenabtei St. Hildegard, dir. M.-I. Ritscher. Bayer 100116, 1979. A Feather on the Breath of God: Sequences and Hymns by Abbess Hildegard of Bingen.
Ordo Virtutum (Latin for Order of the Virtues) is an allegorical morality play, or sacred music drama, by Hildegard of Bingen, composed around 1151, during the construction and relocation of her Abbey at Rupertsberg.
The album is one of a series of recordings of the complete musical works of Hildegard by the early medieval music specialists and founders of Sequentia, Barbara Thornton and her husband Benjamin Bagby. It was recorded between 16 and 21 June 1993 in the church of St. Pantaleon, Cologne, Germany, "at the sarcophagus of the Empress Theophanu" (d ...
In the Green is a one-act musical with a book, music, and lyrics by Grace McLean.The show tells the story of medieval composer, mystic, scientist, and Catholic saint Hildegard von Bingen “on her path to sainthood from childhood,” primarily depicting the thirty years she spent locked up in a cell with her mentor, the anchoress Jutta von Sponheim.
A Star in the East – Medieval Hungarian Christmas Music : 1996: Harmonia Mundi: CD Portrait of Anonymous 4: 1997: Harmonia Mundi: CD Hildegard von Bingen – 11,000 Virgins: Chants for the Feast of St. Ursula: 1997: Harmonia Mundi: CD A Lammas Ladymass: 13th and 14th Century English Chant and Polyphony: 1998: Harmonia Mundi: CD Legends of St ...