This portrait is part of an 8-part series of portraits of female composers. All having unjustly faded into obscurity. Yet, despite restrictions, they were stars in their time. Hildegard von Bingen of noble birth was a composer, poetess, prophetess, theologian and physician, living from 1098 to 1179. Well educated in the liberal arts, in particular music, she founded her own independent women´s ...
