Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Lieder des Abschieds op. 14 were composed in 1920–1921, immediately after his most famous opera Die tote Stadt and in close proximity to the Piano Quintet, op. 15. The close relationship to the Piano Quintet is especially visible in the second movement of the quintet, which Korngold himself described as “free variations on the ‘Songs of Farewell’, op. 14” and which was based in particular on the third song, Mond, so gehst du wieder auf. Korngold orchestrated his...