 In the last two bars, however, he has a last fleeting vision of his beloved.The song was premiered at Munich on 9 November 1896, along with the four other Opus 32 songs, with Strauss accompanying Raoul Walter, a lyric tenor who was resident at the Munich Royal Opera.Strauss recorded the song in 1943 for a radio broadcast from Vienna, with himself on piano with tenor Anton Dermota.