Recommend of the piece to listen to while reading. Explain how other movements in Opus 12 connect to this one. Find more details on the myth of Hero and Leander itself.

: When morning came and Hero saw Leander’s lifeless body washed up on the shore, she was overcome with grief and threw herself from her tower into the sea to be with him in death.

: One winter night, a fierce storm blew out Hero's torch. Without the light to guide him, Leander lost his way in the darkness and drowned.