"If death comes, I can face it quite bravely if I know even one piece will survive,' he had written.
(Phineas Fox Mystery #2)
A German musician who has fallen in love with a Jewish woman wants his music to survive. Her cousin, taken to a concentration camp, to be forced to write victory music for Hitler (chosen specifically because all Jews are expendable to the Nazis), finds the score just before she is captured. And, after seeing the musician being tortured for his supposed betrayal of the Nazi cause, decides that's what she wants for him too. She removes her cousin's name from the music: it is no longer Silke's music, and it becomes music marked with her own signature, a ghost note which her husband, who is later separately brought to a Nazi holding house along with their teenaged daughter, finds... the music does in fact survive, in two differently named copies, though those who find it decades later know nothing of its true composer, raising questions of what it means to leave a legacy.