We’ve heard Bortkiewicz’s setting of Andersen’s Child in the Grave. Now, to close Op. 39, we hear his Der Tod der Mutter (“Death of the Mother”) from Tolstoy’s Childhood. Listen for these earlier themes:

0:00 Natalia
0:48 Grischa
1:38 Maman
2:22 Grischa

https://youtu.be/NC8_DDpW5ng

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