As a sibling piece to "Nachträume", eight years later Todes Stille now seeks to encounter a song composition by Franz Schubert with the solo guitar anew. In front of Goethe's text, which is articulated in a whisper-restrained manner, a sparse, calmly flowing music emerges that consists more of sound than gesture and occasionally projects sung into it. Several times it falls through the entire octave space of the instrument, into the lowest guitar note, which is now tuned down by a major third: the large, almost unreal-seeming C. This tone returns again and again in a kind of central tonality, evoking expansiveness and reflecting the basic tone of the song. Death, which is named in the poem, is aware of this vastness. Death, whose silence also pervades the stillness and infinity of the water.