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
Opera’s 40th anniversary season, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s sincere and compelling “Hildegard,” based on a real-life 12th century abbess and present-day cult figure, St. Hildegard von Bingen.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025
While using the app on a recent morning, I encountered the music of Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century Benedictine nun and composer of Gregorian chants.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2023
Mount Erie is where Bingen got to know Kloke.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 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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