Mezzo-soprano, viola d'amore and harp - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q43313 Cycle based on Rainer Maria Rilke. Composed by Wilfried Hiller. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, Score and parts. Duration 8 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q43313. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q43313). German.In his four-part song cycle, Wilfried Hiller sets various poems by Rainer Maria Rilke to music which were published between 1906 and 1913. Hiller chose the pieces according to their dramatic effect: The content they share is the awareness of topics like loneliness, death and loss; however, neither the texts nor his composition reflect feelings of utter hopelessness. The songs were premiered at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 2010.