March is Women's History Month, and we're reaching back to the 12th century today with music by one of the earliest documented women composers. Hildegard von Bingen was born in 1179, and was educated ...

Boston being the lively early-music town that it is, performances of 12th-century Benedictine abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen’s “Ordo Virtutum,” or “The Order of the Virtues,” are hardly few ...

Discover the visions, the biography, songs and famous quotes of this legendary composer and saint Hildegard of Bingen was a saint, composer and poet. But it's only recently that her songs, writings ...

Pope Benedict XIV has indicated he plans to canonize the 12th-century female composer, mystic, author, physician and abbess Hildegard von Bingen and then proclaim her a Doctor of the Church in October ...

Having recently announced its retirement as a full-time group, the phenomenal female vocal quartet Anonymous 4 returns to one of its primary wellfonts in this final recording: works penned by… By ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Folger Consort, the early music ensemble in residence at the Folger Shakespeare ...

Hildegard was born in 1098 to a noble family in Rhineland in Western Germany. From a young age she experienced visions and was offered to the Church around the age of eight. She lived her entire life ...

In the year 1098, a girl named Hildegard was born in Germany. The 10th child in a family of nobles, Hildegard was "tithed" to the church and at age 8 sent to a Benedictine monastery to become a nun.