The Music Of Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during 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 was born over 900 years ago and for most of her 80-plus years was shut away in an obscure hilltop monastery in the Rhineland. This remarkable woman had left behind a treasure-trove of illuminated manuscripts, scholarly writings and songs.

Her sublime, life-affirming music struck a chord with young professionals seeking solace and inspiration in a violent, troubled world.