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"I remember," he said. "I remember what came before the silence."

"Maestro?" she whispered.

The first three movements had been difficult. The Cantabile 1 required him to play a single note for ninety seconds while slowly detuning the string—a falling that never landed. The Cantabile 2 was played entirely on the wood of the bow, not the hair. The Cantabile 3 had no pitch at all, only rhythm: the heartbeat of a dying man, accelerating. Cantabile 4-- Crack

Outside, on the Danube Canal, the ice was beginning to break. "I remember," he said