The work of Paul Hindemith is encyclopedic in nature. From the outset, he worked in all musical genres and devised several of his musical ideas and projects not as individual, self-contained works but as work cycles with different functional relationships. These contrasting pieces complement each other if experienced as part of the overall structure. Hindemith himself not only wanted a complete edition of his collected works but had begun planning it; at his death he left a detailed list of ‚Unp...

• 4 Lieder nach Texten von Matthias Claudius (1933)
• 4 Lieder nach Texten von Novalis (1933)
• Sechs Lieder nach Texten von Friedrich Hölderlin (1933-35)
• Vier Lieder nach Texten von Angelus Silesius (1935)
• Lieder nach Texten von Clemens Brentano (1936)
• Das Köhlerweib ist trunken (1936)
• Der Einsiedler (19399
• Lieder nach Texten von Friedrich Nietzsche (1939)
• Das Marienleben (Neufassung 1935-48)