Robert Schneider is the Austrian author of the internationally acclaimed 1992 novel Brother of Sleep (Schlafes Bruder), a tragic story about a 19th-century Alpine musical genius, Elias Alder, who develops supernatural hearing and talent but is destroyed by his unrequited love and inability to be understood, becoming a major success despite initial rejections and inspiring film, opera, and play adaptations
Robert Schneider is the Austrian author of the internationally acclaimed 1992 novel Brother of Sleep (Schlafes Bruder), a tragic story about a 19th-century Alpine musical genius, Elias Alder, who develops supernatural hearing and talent but is destroyed by his unrequited love and inability to be understood, becoming a major success despite initial rejections and inspiring film, opera, and play adaptations
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