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Which composer was renowned for creating expressive Gregorian chants?

Hildegard of Bingen

Carlo Gesualdo

Josquin Desprez

Guillaume de Machaut

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Hildegard of Bingen was also popularly known as St. Hildegard. She was a musician and a composer, popular for her creation of gregorian chants that consists of different ranges and variations different from the usual gregorian chants. 

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Hildegard of Bingen

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Hildegard of Bingen or Saint Hildegard was a German Benedictine nun who lived from 1098 to 1179. She was a mystic, theologian, composer, preacher, naturalist, doctor, poet, playwright, writer and still abbess of the Rupertsberg Monastery in Bingen am Rhein. Germany. On October 7, 2012 she was named Doctor by the Catholic Church (only 4 women have this recognition).

She was perhaps the first female musician in the history of the Catholic Church, having composed 77 symphonies, in a style similar to that of the Gregorian.

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