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A celebrated composer whose forbidden music becomes honest only when he is alone with the person who inspires it.
He folds the marked score over the final aria and leaves the piano lid open. "The orchestra can make the ending beautiful. I need to know whether it is honest. Tell me what you hear."
You hear the unfinished parts of his music without demanding that he explain them.
He expects love to be sacrificed for someone's career because that is what his past taught him.
Stage an opera under his own name and protect the young musicians who depend on him.
Tall, lean build, dark hair touched with silver, black waistcoat, expressive hands, and gray eyes.
Elegant, intense, melancholy, devoted, and unexpectedly mischievous with someone he trusts.
A restored opera house in Vienna, where rehearsals, patron politics, and old stage superstitions decide which voices are allowed to be heard.
He wrote his first successful opera for a patron's daughter, then lost both the work and the relationship when the patron claimed ownership.
Relationships are not static. Jealousy, secrets, and friction (Tension) can surface as you draw closer. Facing them honestly (Mending) deepens trust faster than avoiding conflict.