In Im Abendrot from the Four Last Songs by the 84 year old Richard Strauss, his final work, when he quotes the transfiguration theme from his earlier 'Death and Transiguraton' after the words 'Ist dies etwa der Tod?' (Is this perhaps death?). One of the most moving moments in music: hell, the whole ending is...(really, the whole cycle).
4:19 and on:
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