Hildegard of Bingen

“Hildegard came into our lives about 40 years ago with a recording called ‘A Feather on the Breath of God’, which is a line of Hildegard’s, by Gothic Voices…Hildegard was an extraordinary figure. She was an abbess who ran an abbey in the Rhineland in the 11th- 12th century. She was an administrator, but also a scientist, a medic, a philosopher, a theologian and quite an interesting writer. She wrote poetry, she wrote plays, and she wrote what is almost the first opera, although she wouldn’t have known that that’s what it was—a kind of sung play.” Read more...

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Andrew Ford, Musicians, Music Critics & Scholar