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Sara Mohr-Pietsch on Hildegard of Bingen

Episode 5 of 5

Radio 3 presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch celebrates a composer whose music has particularly inspired her: the remarkable twelfth-century abbess and mystic Hildegard of Bingen - perhaps the earliest actual "composer" in the history of Western music.

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Fri 27 Mar 2015 22:45

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