Rudolf Yergler
Author, Chronike von Nath. A blind German mystic and alchemist, who finished his
momentous work in 1653, just before his sight gave out. Shortly after the first edition, he was sent to an asylum in Berlin. Although the work contained odd musical rhythm patterns, Yergler had not been a musician, and it is not known whether he copied the formulae from older tomes or created them himself. He died mysteriously in the madhouse during a thunderstorm. A hideous cocophany was heard outside and above his room, followed by the sound of a broken shutter, and a wild scream. Yergler was found slumped in a corner of the room in an attitude of extreme terror, dead eyes bulging upward, his face and body pitted with holes that resembled burns but were not. [DWR Music (online text)]
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