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EPISODE · Feb 6, 2019 · 12 MIN

St. Hildegard of Bingen

from The Big Ponder · host Goethe-Institut

St. Hildegard of Bingen was a twelfth-century German nun – a writer, composer of chants, mystic and visionary. You might be asking yourself, what on earth does a twelfth-century nun have to do with life today? What does medieval chanting have to do with music today? It turns out, a lot.

St. Hildegard of Bingen was a twelfth-century German nun – a writer, composer of chants, mystic and visionary. You might be asking yourself, what on earth does a twelfth-century nun have to do with life today? What does medieval chanting have to do with music today? It turns out, a lot.

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