Wilfried Hiller

'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...

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...

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...

Already as a child, says Wilfried Hiller, he was fascinated by the music of The Magic Flute, particularly by Tamino's flute songs and Papageno's glockenspiel music. This lifelong fascination induced t...

Already as a child, says Wilfried Hiller, he was fascinated by the music of The Magic Flute, particularly by Tamino's flute songs and Papageno's glockenspiel music. This lifelong fascination induced t...

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...