swan song

It might well be the "swan song" of a veteran artist at such work.

They were gathering at the feet of “Old Fritz” for their swan song.

It almost made me fear lest it should prove a swan song from the dear minister.

There fell the flower of the Bohemian nobility; and there was heard the swan song of the Bohemian Brethren.

Théophile Gautier wrote of him, "That exhibition was Marilhat's swan song, and the works he sent were eight diamonds."

And I sang from sheer exhilaration—a sort of swan song (as I see it now) before captivity.

The music of this work in three acts was the swan song of the genial Benjamin Godard.

Whistle softly and a bright-coated fellow will run up even upon your shoulder to show his appreciation of the Swan Song.

The championship of Max, however, is a sort of swan song for musical comedy.

I believe,” Mollie smiled to herself, “that the autumn leaves sing their swan song, too.