Tokyo: He was celebrated as a prolific musical genius whose compositions appeared everywhere from popular video games to the competition routine of a top figure skater in the upcoming Sochi Olympics. His deafness won him praise as Japan’s digital-age Beethoven.
But on Thursday, Japan reacted with remorse, outrage, and even the rare threat of a lawsuit after the composer, Mamoru Samuragochi, 50, admitted that he had hired a ghostwriter since the 1990s to write most of his music. The anger turned to disbelief when the ghostwriter himself came forward to accuse Mr Samuragochi of faking his deafness, apparently to win public sympathy.
The scandal began on Wednesday, when Mr Samuragochi suddenly confessed that someone else had written his most famous works. These include Symphony No. 1 Hiroshima, about the 1945 atomic bombing of his home city, which became a classical music hit in Japan; the theme music for the video games Resident Evil and Onimusha; and Sonatina for Violin, which the Japanese Olympic figure skater Daisuke Takahashi is scheduled to use in his short program performance at the Winter Games in Sochi.
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Famous deaf composer Mamoru Samuragochi neither a composer nor deaf
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Also on the BBC's site from three weeks ago.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26039226
(Over here in Japan, the scandal has been running for some time and didn't begin on any recent 'Wednesday' or 'Thursday').
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26039226
(Over here in Japan, the scandal has been running for some time and didn't begin on any recent 'Wednesday' or 'Thursday').
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Yeah, Kotaku covered it a couple of weeks ago.Doug1978 wrote:Also on the BBC's site from three weeks ago.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26039226
(Over here in Japan, the scandal has been running for some time and didn't begin on any recent 'Wednesday' or 'Thursday').
http://kotaku.com/resident-evil-compose ... 1516435701
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"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
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I do atleast believe he suffered temporal (partial?) hearing loss.
hire ghost writers, then fake hearing loss just to be celebrated as a Beethoven? if that's the case he's just f**king crazy.
the hearing deficiency might very well not have been the single or most important reason he outsourced his work, but it just wouldn't make much sense if the deafness claim was completely inspired by fantasy.
if the ghost writer's allegations are truthful though, he does appear to be pretty mental...suicide threats and all.
hire ghost writers, then fake hearing loss just to be celebrated as a Beethoven? if that's the case he's just f**king crazy.
the hearing deficiency might very well not have been the single or most important reason he outsourced his work, but it just wouldn't make much sense if the deafness claim was completely inspired by fantasy.
if the ghost writer's allegations are truthful though, he does appear to be pretty mental...suicide threats and all.
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lol, aaand once again the public is outraged that the music industry is a sham.
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