Wilfried Hiller

In a film portrait of dancer, painter and sculptor Antje Tesche-Mentzen, I learned that in former times she was a proficient pianist. When she told me that she intended to begin playing again, I promi...

Wilfried Hiller arranged three dances from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana for the famous klezmer clarinettist Giora Feidman. The version for clarinet and four violoncellos was first performed by him toget...

This rewarding trio composition traces the ancient Greek myth of Niobe, goddess of fertility, who was turned to stone. The Aria 'Io son di morte' from the Baroque opera of the same name by Agostino St...

This piece was originally intended as part of a larger cycle based on a series of paintings by Marc Chagall. The fiddle of the title is the main protagonist in this little movement for string trio, th...

Although Fillmore believed this to be one of his best marches, this piece has been forgotten and has fallen under the shadow of classics from the same compositional period such as His Honor. Endowed w...

Violine, Viola, Violoncello, Kontrabass und Klavier

Who does not remember the humorous stories by Wilhelm Busch from childhood days? Or, worse even, has not met 'hostile neighbours' once in his/her life as a musician? With subtle irony, Wilfried Hiller...

Dieses Auftragswerk für den 5. Internationalen Violinwettbewerb Leopold Mozart in Augsburg ist im Berlioz-Jahr 2003 eine liebevoll-ironische Hommage an Harriet Smithson, die berühmte englische Darstel...

The five movements of this vivid opening to the exhibition are connected through pizzicato intermezzos. The fourth movement demands a second scordatura instrument; the use of little bells and singing...

The short two-part composition refers to two persons by the name of Teresa. One of them was a beautiful Polish actress, the other the favourite model of the painter Balthus. I tried to fuse the charac...

Spielpartitur - Schlagzeug mit 2 Spielern (Schlagzeug I: Vibraphon, Litophon oder Flasche, Darabukka, Xylophon, hängende Glasstäbe, Schüttelrohr, kleine Trommel, 2 Bongos, 4 Triangeln, 2 Zimbeln, Meta...

Partitur (zugleich Spielpartitur) - Schlagzeug mit 4 Spielern (Schlagzeug I: Xylophon, Cimbeln, 2 Dovaci [Japan. Tempelglocke], Röhrenholztrommel, Tempelblocks, Bambusstab, Tamtam, Kuhglocke, Angklung...

Spielpartitur - Schlagzeug mit 3 Spielern (Schlagzeug I: Glockenspiel, Xylophon, Sandblock, Weinglas, Jaycall - Schlagzeug II: Vibraphon [ohne Motor], 2 Congas [hoch, tief], 2 Bongos, 5 Tempelblocks,...

Spielpartitur - Schlagzeug mit 4 Spielern (Schlagzeug I: Xylophon, Rührtrommel, Marimbaphon, Pandeira, Claves, Schüttelrohr - Schlagzeug II: Bongo, Xylophon, Glockenspiel, Schellenkranz, Glasstäbe, Ho...

Schlagzeug-Ensemble.

Rainer Maria Rilke gives the well-known Orpheus myth a surprising turn: when Orpheus turns around, Eurydike does not recognise him (any more). In his piano piece composed as a compulsory piece for the...

Tinnitus-Trio - Scene with Beethoven' deals in a subtle and parodistic manner with the question as to how Beethoven wrote his late works despite his deafness. Legend has it that he had the legs of his...

Two instruments - sometimes two violins, sometimes violin and double-bass or clarinet and bassoon - always take the lead as a duo in the ensemble which is arranged around the audience. In the love-son...

Inspired by Heinrich Heine's poem Ihr Bild in the musical setting by Franz Schubert, the seven short movements with connecting interludes evoke the picture of a nightly round dance in an imagined scul...

In the writings of Athanasius Kircher, the organ is inextricably linked to the myth of creation. Accordingly, it is the organ that is brought to the fore by Hiller with the help of two large-scale toc...

In 2000, the Expo in Hanover saw the world premiere of this arrangement of two parts from the opera Der Rattenfänger by Wilfried Hiller and Michael Ende. The myth about the Pied Piper is placed in a n...