In the 9th century St. Gall abbey was one of the most important cultural centers of the Carolingian era.

Ensemble Ordo Virtutum presents masterpieces of the most prominent poet-composers of the monastery, the monks Notker Balbulus and Tuotilo, working mainly in the field of sequence and tropus.

The program also explores some of the oral musical traditions living outside the official liturgy, as instrumental versions of the sequence melodies, Angilbert's moving planctus on the battle of Fontaneto or Godescalc's famous "Ut quid iubes".

The Old High German "Ludwigslied" retells the story of king Ludwig's III. victory over the Norsemen in the battle of Saucourt, which took place in 881.

Notker | "Sancti spiritus"

• Program information:
  
  
  • 8 musicians (6 male vocalists, fiddle, harp)
  
  
• Performances:
  
  
  • 22. 05. 2001, 7pm
    Stiftsbibliothek Sankt Gallen