Margot Fassler: The Spiritual Cosmos in Music and Art

Hildegard of Bingen — Book of Divine Works — Cosmos Body and Soul

Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at Notre Dame, where she also directs the Program in Sacred Music. She has published widely on medieval music, and in recent years has devoted her attention to diverse projects including Coptic chant, and the all-consuming work of the 12th-century German mystic Hildegard von Bingen. Her work on Hildegard will find expression a forthcoming volume, Cosmos and Creation in Hildegard’s Scivias and a fascinating and ambitious multimedia project — a digital model of creation and cosmos based on Hildegard’s illuminations. Coming soon to a planetarium near you! In short, Margot Fassler is a respected and celebrated scholar with a brilliant and curious mind that leads her to explore diverse media - medieval and modern - and makes her a thoroughly delightful conversation partner.

View an earlier conversation between Peter Bouteneff and Prof. Fassler on our Reflections page.

See Margot Fassler’s 50-minute documentary on Coptic Chant in America, “Where the Hudson Meets the Nile”