Notker Balbulus

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Notker the Stammerer (Latin: Notker Balbulus) (c. 840 – 6 April 912), also called Notker the Poet or Notker of Saint Gall, was a musician, author, poet, and Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall in modern Switzerland. He is commonly accepted to be the Monk of Saint Gall (Monachus Sangallensis), the author of De Carolo Magno, a book of anecdotes about the Emperor Charlemagne. Notker was born around 840, to a distinguished family. He would seem to have been born at Jonschwyl on the River Thur, south of Wil, in the modern canton of Saint Gall in Switzerland; some sources claim Elgg to be his place of birth. He studied with Tuotilo at Saint Gall's monastic school, taught by Iso, and Moengall. He became a monk there and is mentioned as librarian in 890 and as master of guests in 892–4. He was chiefly active as a teacher, and displayed refinement of taste as poet and author. Ekkehard IV, the biographer of the monks of Saint Gall, lauds him as "delicate of body but not of mind, stuttering of tongue but not of intellect, pushing boldly forward in things Divine, a vessel of the Holy Spirit without equal in his time". He died in 912. He was beatified in 1512. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Notker Balbulus: Sequnezen, Tropen & Gregorianischer Choral aud dem Kloster St. Gallen

Music and Poetry in St Gallen: Sequences and Tropes (9th Century)

The Medieval Muse

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Speculative Grammarian Podcast

Chant Wars

Notker Balbulus: Liber ymnorum

Musique Et Poésie à Saint-Gall

Music And Poetry In St Gallen

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Sequenzen, Tropen & Gregorianischer Choral aus dem Kloster St. Gallen (Ordo Virtutum/ Stefan Morent)

Sequnezen, Tropen & Gregorianischer Choral aud dem Kloster St. Gallen

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Notker Balbulus: Sequenzen, Tropen & Gregorianischer Choral aus dem Kloster St. Gallen

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