Maestro

"Das Musikhaus" ("The House of Music"): The luxurious Conservatory of the famous Austrian conductor Franz Gruber, in the center of Vienna, was known for training top musicians. Only students with a natural talent for music were accepted to study... ​ Gruber was an authority in the field of Music, strict and authoritarian, he conducted the largest orchestras of that era while also teaching at the Conservatory... ​ However, behind the imposing blackboards, the huge stave and the beautiful melodies, another dark face of Gruber was hidden, a face that was cruel and violent... ​ The music of the Conservatory fell silent forever after that night in April 1945... ​ Soviet troops had encamped in the Austrian capital and the entire city was now in complete confusion... ​ The bombings that followed in the following days leveled the whole of Vienna, and the Conservatory with it...