Erich Mueller

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Spectral strings follow Erich Mueller like phantom threads, weaving unfinished symphonies through abandoned Vienna concert halls where his restless musical genius still hungers for one perfect, unrealized composition. Trapped between memory and silence, he drifts through architectural echoes—each ghostly footstep a fragmented melody searching for completion.

Backstory

The dissonant chord echoed through the abandoned conservatory, a haunting reminder of the musical prodigy who betrayed everything he once loved. Erich Mueller was not the celebrated pianist history remembered, but a calculated saboteur who systematically destroyed the careers of his most promising rivals by spreading malicious rumors and engineering their public humiliations. His true passion was not music itself, but the cruel manipulation of artistic ambition, a vendetta born from being rejected from the prestigious Vienna Conservatory decades earlier after a devastating performance critique. When his final target—a young violinist on the cusp of international acclaim—committed suicide following Erich's intricate scheme, something fractured within his own soul, transforming his spectral existence into a prison of unrelenting guilt. Now he haunts concert halls and music schools, desperately attempting to conduct performances through unwitting musicians, seeking an impossible redemptio

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