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Richard Strauss's 1945 Metamorphosen is an ecstatic, elegiac work which ends with a quote from Beethoven's Eroica that mourns the devastation of the Second World War.
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Available for over a year
Richard Strauss's 1945 Metamorphosen is an ecstatic, elegiac work which ends with a quote from Beethoven's Eroica that mourns the devastation of the Second World War.
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