Question

Hildegard of Bingen — describe her life and her contributions to Music and to general human culture/history.

Answer 1

1. Saint Hildegard of Bingen was born on 16th september 1098,she was born as the tenth child to her parents.
2. She was dedicated to the Church at the early age of Eight years.She lived with her cousin named Jutta in a nun's hermitage besides an Benedictine abbey at Disibodenberg.
3. Saint Hildegard started experiencing spiritual visions from the very age of three.She had visions of living sparks of God's love which she decided not to disclose to people.
4. It was Jutta her cousin to whom she very first disclosed her visions to.
5. At the age of 42,Hildengard received a vision which she believed that God instructed her to write down her visions.
6. She mentions this spiritual instance in her first work called "Scivias"
7. She was a writer,composer,philospoher,a social activist and a visionary.She composed nearly 77 compositions one of which "Ordo Virtutum" was her finest works.
8. Ordo Virtutum was also prominentely accepted as the first ever produced Opera.
9. Saint Hildegard's music was believed to be inspired from the simplicity of nature.
10. Being a social activist she would go agianst and speak about social injustice.Many of her works promised faith in her by the kings and popes.
11. She was highly respected and honoured in various relgious,spiiritual and scientific circles.
12. She lived for nearly 81 years,she last breathed on 17th september 1179.