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Saint Tuotilo (Tutilo, Tutilo von Gallen, Tutilo of Gall, Tutilo of Saint Gall) (ca. 850 – ca. 915) was a medieval monk and composer. Born in Ireland, he is said to have been a large and powerfully built man. He was educated at the Abbey of St. Gall and remained to become a monk there. He was the friend of Notker of St. Gall, with whom he studied music under Moengal. Around 900 he visited St. Alban's Abbey, Mainz, a sister Benedictine abbey. From <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tuotilo">Read
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- Saint.name
- Tuotilo
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- 250px
- Saint.death_date
- 915
- Saint.death_place
- Abbey of Saint Gall, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Saint.feast_day
- 28 March
- Saint.venerated_in
- Catholic Church
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- OSB
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Alamannia
- Place of birth
- Alamannia
- Place of death
- St. Gallen
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Instrument
- harp
- Religious order
- Benedictines
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- Tuotilo
- date of birth
- 0850-01-01
- date of death
- 1000-00-00
- canonization status
- saint
- described by source
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- feast day
- March 28
- has works in the collection
- Abbey library of St. Gallen
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thumb|Two ivory tablets attributed to Tuotilo
Tuotilo or Tutilo OSB (died 915) was a Frankish monk at the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Gall. He was a composer, and according to Ekkehard IV a century later, also a poet, musician, painter and sculptor. Various trope melodies can be assigned to Tuotilo, but works of other mediums are attributed with less certainty. He was a student of and friends with the fellow monk Notker the Stammerer.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tuotilo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.