Composers

Question 1

Enheduanna

Answer 1

fl. ca. 2300 BCE
Akkadian high priestess at Ur
earliest known composer

Question 2

Hildegard of Bingen

Answer 2

Prioress of the convent at Benedictine monestery of Disibodenberg
- prophecies
- prose work on visions, science, healing
- religious poems
- songs: antiphons, responsories, sequences
- earliest surviving music drama not attached to liturgy (Ordo virtutum, The Virtues, ca. 1151)