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Radio 3,21 Mar 2014,15 mins

SeriesSecret Admirers

Sara Mohr-Pietsch on Hildegard of Bingen

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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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