Rüdesheim / Wiesbaden Köln Frankfurt / Koblenz Train station Rüdesheim B42 Ferry Rhine Bingen-Rüdesheim PREFACE / Mainz Rheinradweg Frankfurt B9 Park am BingenMäuseturm © Edgar Daudistel Airport Frankfurt Naheradweg Bingen Central station Train station Bingen-Gaulsheim The compositions by Hildegard von Bingen were considered to Train station be unique even as early in the High Middle Ages. No other Bingen-Stadt contemporary composer achieved such a comprehensive Nahe A60 B9 repertoire and there is nobody else from that time period who Köln / Koblenz created such a recognisably individual style. Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 1179) really is the most internationally well- A61 known and popular representative of early European music his- tory. The name of the town in which Hildegard von Bingen lived Saarbrücken / Bad Kreuznach and in which she created her unique repertoire strikes a par- Ludwigshafen © Dominik Ketz Photography ticular note among music fans in Australia, Japan, as well as all over Europe and North America. Hildegard’s own town is at the gates of the UNESCO World Heritage Site – Middle Rhein How to get there? Valley, which itself boasts numerous medieval castles, monas- Special exhibition in the Museum am Strom WEEKEND ARRANGEMENTS: Bingen is just an hour away from Germany‘s biggest airport teries and towns. It is in this town that a music festival will take from the 20th September to the 22nd Frankfurt, accessible at two train stations and located near dif- place that makes Hildegard’s time come alive for everyone to Experience Hildegard’s country: in the Museum am Strom, you will The weekend arrangement contains: December 2019 ferent motorways. The City is directly opposite to Rüdesheim. experience with all their senses. The festival revolves around receive an exclusive tour through the permanent exhibition on » 3 overnight stays including breakfast the music of the 11th to the 14th century, as this was the pe- Hildegard von Bingen and you will learn more about the great ”SOUNDS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. riod that was so defining for Hildegard’s work. It is not just the abbess who founded her own convent on the Rupertsberg in » Your choice of 2 concerts at special locations MUSIC BETWEEN DIVINE PRAISE religious music of monasteries and cathedrals that comes into Bingen. Afterwards you will enjoy a delicious lunch buffet in the » Hildegard tour in the Museum am Strom, Friday 10:30 AND DEVILISH PLEASURE“ its own at the festival; rather we also dedicate attention to the Hildegard-Forum der “Kreuzschwestern” (sisters of the Cross), a Tickets available via www.adticket.de as well as in the minstrel, instrumental and court music of the time that was place that really is in the spirit of Hildegard. » 1 lunch buffet in the Hildegard-Forum, Friday 12:00 – 14:00 Bingen tourist office, Rheinkai 21, 55411 Bingen also listened to by those of a religious disposition. The “Festi- What did the Middle Ages sound like? The new special exhibition » Ringticket – combined ship and cable car tour val Musica Antiqua Bingen” only provides a spotlight for the You will either spend the night in the nH Hotel Bingen, which is in the Museum am Strom spirits the visitors away into a time very highest-quality ensembles from all over Europe. To round directly on the corner of the Rhine and offers a spectacular view when life in Bingen and elsewhere was loud, but not always off the Hildegard experience, the visitors to the festival can of the UNESCO World Heritage site Middle Rhine Valley or in the Prices: musical. This was a time when minstrels and jongleurs sang of enjoy both the comprehensive permanent exhibition on the life family-run, centrally located Hotel Würth. heroic deeds and wild adventures in castles and royal courts, a 309 Euros NH Hotel Bingen and works of the great prophetess in the Museum am Strom time when voices were raised to praise God every day in monas- © Photos: artists The new music festival in Hildegard’s as well as the special exhibition that has been created for the You can use the Ringticket to get to know Bingen and its surround- 299 Euros Hotel Würth am Freidhof teries and cathedrals; but it was also a time when the heathen own town Bingen am Rhein. festival entitled “Sounds of the Middle Ages. Music between ings a bit better. You can use the excursion ship to cross the Rhine repertoire was also well thought of. 249 / 259 Euros Hotel in the Hildegard-Forum der divine praise and devilish pleasure.” Hildegard von Bingen is and use the cable car in Rüdesheim to go up to the Niederwald- “Kreuzschwestern” (sisters of the Cross) – considered today to be perhaps the most important compos- denkmal, which is a monument that was erected for the unifica- The exciting variety of the time period resounds throughout an (differing room categories) per person in a double room er in musical history. In this way, Hildegard’s own town of tion of Germany. The Eibingen St. Hildegard convent is very close exhibition that is a treat for all the senses. It presents replica me- 3 to 6 October 2019 Bingen and the “Festival Musica Antiqua Bingen” enable you by and it is a convent in which Benedictine nuns live and work to dieval musical instruments alongside magnificent choir books and to connect with the impressive works of the great prophetess this very day. After a nice, short walk through the Niederwald, you Weekend arrangements can be booked over the tourist original documents of the early musical history of the region. The as never before. can ride down to the Rhine on the cable car in Assmannshausen information office in Bingen by calling + 49 (0) 6721 / 184 200 music of Hildegard von Bingen is presented in all its glory: two and then get back onto the ship for the journey back to Bingen. or via internet under www.adticket.de music parchments from Hildegard’s time that are thought to Contact: come from the Rupertsberg will be exhibited here for the first Veranstaltungsbüro der Stadt Bingen Thomas Feser, Lord Mayor Bingen am Rhein Your package includes your choice of two concerts of the Musica time. A multimedia station offers new insights and a plethora of Rheinkai 21 Rainer M. Thurau, artistic director Antiqua Bingen. You may book tickets to additional concerts if you information concerning choral singing in the Hildegardkloster. 55411 Bingen wish. Tel.: 0 67 21 / 184 -350 [email protected] www.bingen.de 3 October 2019, 19:30, Basilika St. Martin HIRUNDO MARIS Advance booking: 23 € | School pupils, students, apprentices: 12 € Price on the day: 28,50 € | School pupils, students, apprentices: 12 € 4. October 2019, 19:30, Hildegard-Gedächtniskirche SEQUENTIA Advance booking: 23 € | School pupils, students, apprentices: 12 € Price on the day: 28,50 € | School pupils, students, apprentices: 12 € 5. October 2019, 11:00, Rochuskapelle Thu., 3. October 2019 Fri., 4. October 2019 Sat., 5. October 2019 Sat., 5. October 2019 Sun., 6. October 2019 TIBURTINA 19:30, Basilika St. Martin 19:30, Hildegard-Gedächtniskirche 11:00, Rochuskapelle 20:00, Basilika St. Martin 12:00, Hildegard-Gedächtniskirche Advance booking: 23 € | School pupils, students, apprentices: 12 € HIRUNDO MARIS (CH/ES): SEQUENTIA (FR): “MONKS SINGING TIBURTINA (CZ): CANTIGAS DE SANTA ONI WYTARS (DE): ORDO VIRTUTUM (DE): Price on the day: 28,50 € | School pupils, students, apprentices: 12 € “VOX COSMICA” – ARIANNA SAVALL PAGANS” – BENJAMIN BAGBY MARIA – KABATKOVA BLAZIKOVA STUPOR MUNDI – MARCO AMBROSINI FRAGMENTUM – STEFAN MORENT In 2009, Arianna Savall, daughter of the world-famous Catalan musicians Jor- Benjamin Bagby is one of the most well-known representatives and The women‘s vocal ensemble from Prague (founded in 2008) has commit- The ensemble Oni Wytars exists since 1983 and since then dedicates to the The ensemble Ordo Virtutum has been founded by the musicologist Prof. 5. October 2019, 20:00, Basilika St. Martin di Savall and Montserrat Figueras, founded the Hirundo Maris ensemble, co-founder of the international early music scene. Between 1982 and 2013 ted itself the goal to revive a wide range of medieval music in harmony with study of the interrelationships and mutual influences of the art music and Dr. med. Stefan Johannes Morent as a special ensemble for medieval mu- which specializes in ancient music from the Middle Ages to the Baroque and his ensemble Sequentia has – for the very first time ever – released a current knowledge about historical performance practices and language popular music of the Mediterranean countries: The focus is on the research sic. The aim is the connection between interpretation and musicological ONI WYTARS in their own compositions and early fusion. The focus is on the intention to recording with the whole work of Hildegard von Bingen in 9 CD‘s and there- declamation. In the eleven years of its existence Tiburtina has already partic- of the sounds of the Italian Trecento, the pilgrim songs from Catalan and research in order to open up access to the musical world of medieval Eu- combine Mediterranean and Nordic music: Like the swallow, which gives the by has been establishing new standards for the contemporary performance ipated at numerous major festivals in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany Spanish manuscripts of the 13th and 14th Century and the melodies and the rope. The current program is the result of years of scientific research and Advance booking: 23 € | School pupils, students, apprentices: 12 € ensemble its name, the ensemble finds common ground over the sea and of her compositions. The current program of his Sequentia trio (with Nor- and Belgium. Maria songs, which King Alfonso The Wise of Castile (1252- passionate poetry of the troubadours and trouvères. The result is a Medi- reconstruction work: When the Reformation has been introduced in the Price on the day: 28,50 € | School pupils, students, apprentices: 12 € the music, which have linked Scandinavia and the Iberian Peninsula since bert Rodenkirchen (flute) and Hanna Marti (vocals, harp)) “Monks singing 1282) has put together in a famous collection, testify to a fascinating culture terranean sound cosmos of rhythms, melodies and improvisations in the 16th century and many monasteries have been dissolved, also their choral immemorial time.