Das Marienleben (The Life of Mary) is a song cycle by German composer Paul Hindemith.

The cycle, written for piano and soprano, sets to music a collection of 15 poems by Rainer Maria Rilke that tells the story of the life of Mary.

[1] The cycle was featured in the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar.

[2] Thirteen years after its 1923 premiere in Frankfurt, Hindemith began extensively revising and reworking the piece, eventually producing a second version which premiered in Hanover in 1948.

[3] The work consists of fifteen movements:[1] A typical performance lasts around an hour and a half.