Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) 5 CD\'s

Hildegard Von Bingen (1098-1179)(German: Hildegard von Bingen;Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis)12th century Benedictine nun,abbess and mystic wrote some of the most heavenly spiritual chants,psalms and canticles in the history of the Catholic Church.Compositions that are so unique and universal in appeal that they were embraced by the \'New Age Movement\' more enthusiastically then they were originally by her own Church.
She was also known as Blessed Hildegard and Saint Hildegard,was a German abbess,artist,author,counselor,linguist, naturalist,scientist,philosopher,physician,herbalist,poet,activist,visionary,and composer.Elected a magistra in 1136,she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165.
She is the first composer with an extant biography.One of her works,the Ordo Virtutum,has been called the first form,and possibly the origin,of opera.

Ordo Virtutum
Celestial Light
Laudes de Sainte Ursule
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