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Hildegard von Bingen was a saint composer and poet, but it's only recently that her songs writings and remarkable life 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 island. She left behind a treasure trove of illuminated manuscripts, scholarly writings and songs written for her nuns to sing at their devotions. Today we think of Hildegard as one of the first identifiable composers in the history of Western music. Most medieval composers were anonymous, But there were no mentions of her music in any reference book before 1979, and she barely warranted an entry in the 1990 edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music.