ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -She founded her own abbey, created her own language, and wrote one of the first musical plays. She was a wonderful composer who set her own lushly poetic texts.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hildegard’s most important works include Ordo virtutum, 43 antiphons, 18 responsories, as well as sequences, hymns, and chants. It is unknown whether her compositions were performed outside of her convent. Even hundreds of years later, many of her works are still available today.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hildegard of Bingen was a saint, composer and poet. But it’s only recently that her songs, writings and remarkable life and visions have been rediscovered. She was born over 900 years ago and for most of her 80-plus years was shut away in an obscure hilltop monastery in the Rhineland.