Hildegard von Bingen

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Hildegard von Bingen was abbess of the convent of Rupertsberg on the Rhine, and also a writer, healer and visionary. For her sisters she wrote the words and music of more than seventy chants, with melodies that reach much higher and wider than ordinary Gregorian chant. Her Ordo Virtutum of around 1151 is a sung play in which the virtues fight for a human soul. She is one of the first composers of whom we know both the name and the work.

Listening

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  Columba aspexit (Emma Kirkby, Gothic Voices) · Hildegard von Bingen, 1150
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  O virtus Sapientiae (Sequentia) · Hildegard von Bingen, 1150
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  Ordo Virtutum: proloog Qui sunt hi (Sequentia) · Hildegard von Bingen, 1151