The Miserere is a short story by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. The story guides us through a world of discordant and gloomy notes with a symphony that seems to come straight from a spectral plane. The Miserere - Plot The narrator and protagonist of the events discovers, in a monastery, a weird sheet of music. It seems to be a certain Miserere, a famous song of penitence of King David. However, the weird annotations inside it spark his curiosity, and so he ends up uncovering the story behind it....