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CrmanysS sccnic Rhine River who visits the dty Of Bingen will be
directed to the hi m
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Seum there, which features front and center the amazing career of
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ery sense a issance ogx。 born a htHle more than three and|
き half centuries before the greatest Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci (1432.1519).
Hildegard was not only a composer of church music but also a mystic。 es a playwright an
7 Re and a sharp observer of natural phenomena on earth and in the skies.
Tronically she had becn a sickly child and her aristocrat father did not hold much hope for her
fature should she choose a normal life. Hle felt her only possibihty of personal happiness
Would be in the service of God as a nun. isolated from the stresses of daily decision-making.
Fortunately for Hildegard, Jutta von Spanheim, her mentor, saw in her an unusual abihty。 and
ldegard was able to develop it to such a high degree that she became famous in her long
jifetime of eighty-one yearS, even going on tOurS throughout Europe to promote her ideas and
professed God-given ViSionS.
_) Hildegard was a member of the Benedictine Order、 That meant a hife of balanced sleep.a
Yegetarian diet regular DraYer and lots of hard work Her frst book, /zber Sczps (Koz 7e
ld be a widely read description of the coSmos based on ancient Greek ideas、 It
Ps), woul
jwas believed to be a divinely inspired work in its time and Would not be matched by any man
邊he short biographies on Hildegard di
al
for centuries, lo not ahways detail her mus
nm them, but Hildegard composed noteworthy liturgical pieces
jpositions, 中 even mentio」
eered in developing the musical morality
for ublic religious ceremony). She also pion
in character of a StorY is presented with
herheorsheis granted entry into
here the mal a dilemma of choice
mcept where
and evil which wil determine Whet
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e.Ytaly, and the Year 1619、 It was the tme of the Baroque. Nght
