Maestro Forte

Maestro  Forte is the primary antagonist of the movie Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas.

Forte was once the loyal composer for the prince who was to become the Beast. When the castle was enchanted however on one Christmas night, he was transformed into a pipe organ which was chained to the wall of a hidden room. Unlike the Beast and the other enchanted servants, who all wish to end the curse and change back to human, Forte did not wish to be human again, since the Beast came to him often to hear his soothing music, which would ease his tormented soul. In this form, he also developed powerful, seemingly demonic abilities, from which he could release through his own music, and became obsessed with it. Thus Forte felt he had more use, and more importantly, power in his enchanted form. He decides to use it to keep the Beast close to himself to prevent the spell from breaking. It remained this way for 10 years until Belle came and made a deal with the Beast, Forte became enraged that the Beast spent all his time with her, and he felt unneeded.

Through his henchman, Fife, the enchanted piccolo, he tried to destroy the Beast and Belle's relationship. He tried to persuade Beast that love was meaningless and that his music was all that he needed. And when that failed, as the Beast finally regained his senses, Forte, refusing to 'fade into the background', decides to bring the whole castle crashing down, killing everyone inside, since no one can fall in love if they're dead. He creates an earthquake that rattles the castle by playing a grand tune at sonic sound levels. Upon seeing the castle in danger, Belle and the Beast break into Forte's room where Beast destroys the keyboard, rendering Forte powerless. Forte then tries to crush the Beast, but the chains that held him to the wall snapped and he fell to the ground to his death, silenced for good.

Forte was voiced by Tim Curry.

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