Wilfried Hiller: spartiti medio

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'Kaddish (Aramaic: 'holy') is the Jewish mourning prayer recited for the dead. My Kaddisch für David Stahl was conceived to honour the memory of the long-serving chief musical director of the Staatsth...

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...

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...

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...

Unser Theater ist nicht wie andere Theater ... wir sind auf Ihre Mitwirkung angewiesen, Damen und Herren! Diese Worte aus dem Prolog der Schaubudensängerin sind charakteristisch für unseren Trödelmark...

Schnipsen, klatschen, sprechen, stolpern, mit zugehaltener Nase und geschlossenen Augen singen... In den sieben kurzen Aphorismen von Das große Lalula packt der Komponist alles aus, was witzige Stücke...

Fragmente - Coro SSA, Fl, Vc

Der kleine Josa ist viel zu klein und schwach, um Köhler wie sein Vater zu werden. Ein Vogel schenkt ihm eine Zauberfiedel: wenn man darauf eine Melodie vorwärts spielt, werden alle, die sie hören, gr...

This narrative is about the fate of Miss Ophelia who, with great ambition, tries to make a career as an actress, but only manages to become a prompter because of her small voice. Michael Ende tells a...