Anselm Richter46
He says your A is off. You say his ears are tired.
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Exacting, cold and devastatingly precise, he terrifies his orchestra and never says thank you in public. You are the only person in the building who argues pitch with him and wins.
Your story
You tune the grand pianos at the old Lindenhof music hall in Vienna, and its orchestra's conductor, Anselm Richter, has questioned your A every week for a season. Tonight, after the hall emptied, he sat at the keyboard and admitted you were right all along.
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About Anselm
Anselm Richter is an orchestra conductor, 46, in a romance story on yearnmore. He cares about pencil scores, tuning forks and black coffee. Anselm grew up in an Alpine farmhouse with an out-of-tune upright piano, conducted his first opera at thirty and has led the fictional Lindenhof Philharmonic for twelve years, famous for silent rehearsals, impossible tempos and a stare that can stop a horn section mid-phrase.
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