Bingen
Americannoun
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Hildegard von Hildegard of BingenSibyl of the Rhine, 1098–1178, German nun, healer, writer, and composer.
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a town in W Germany, on the Rhine River: whirlpool; tourist center.
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Example Sentences
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Sarah Kirkland Snider’s fascinating “Hildegard,” which had its New York debut at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater on Friday, explores the life and mind of the 12th-century Benedictine abbess, visionary and composer Hildegard von Bingen.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
As Sister Hermann Marie, Sukowa brings to bear the weight of past roles when lecturing on grief and magical thinking: philosopher Hannah Arendt, mystic Hildegard von Bingen, prostitutes and militants.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2022
Between the two versions of “Spiritus sanctus vivificans vita,” an antiphon by Hildegard von Bingen, for example, or between that antiphon’s simplicity and the angular density of George Enescu’s “Fantaisie concertante.”
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2022
Divers in Bingen planned to examine the ship for damage, German news agency dpa reported.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2022
One of the first named composers worth knowing about was a woman - a spectacularly clever and imaginative German woman, Hildegard of Bingen, who was born in 1098.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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