Notker the Stammerer
![Notker in a 10th century manuscript, probably from Saint Gall.{{refn|The musicologist [[Richard Taruskin]] notes that in this depiction Notker seems to be "cudgeling his brain to recall a ''longissima melodia'', as he tells us he did in the preface to his ''[[#Liber Hymnorum|Liber Hymnorum]]''".{{sfn|Taruskin|2010|loc=§ "Sequences"}}|group=n}}](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Notker_der_Stammler.jpg)
Born near the Abbey of Saint Gall, Notker was educated alongside the monks Tuotilo and Ratpert; all three were composers, making the Abbey an important center of early medieval music. Notker quickly became a central figure of the Abbey and among the leading literary scholars of the Early Middle Ages. A renowned teacher, he taught Solomon III, the bishop of Constance and on occasion advised Charles the Fat. Although venerated by the Abbey of Saint Gall and the namesake of later scholars there such as Notker Physicus and Notker Labeo, Notker was never formally canonized. He was given "the Stammerer" as an epithet, due to his lifelong stutter. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: 1959
Superior document: Monumenta Germaniae historica : [Scriptores] : [6], Scriptores rerum Germanicarum, nova series 12