>
> In music school, we often ran across works that were believed to be by
> Franz Joseph Haydn, but whose authorship was eventually called into
> question by music historians. At some point, one of my profs told a
> story that Haydn's publisher would sometimes take pieces written by
> other composers and publish them under Haydn's name. Haydn was quite
> well known and well liked, so naturally his publisher thought that the
> pieces would sell better if marketed as pieces by him. I suspect he
> was correct about that.
And of course this still happens today. I went into a record store
about 12 years ago and came across a rather amaturishly packaged CD with
the name Jamrollypolly from Warp records with a label on it that said
"don't let the pseudoym or subgrade packaging fool you! This is the
Aphex Twin!" I asked the store owner about it and they insisted that it
was Aphex Twin, which was believable because Richard James (Aphex Twin)
used several pseudonyms. I bought it (being the sucker I am) and upon
listening to it, it sounded somewhat like Aphex Twin, but it turned out
that it wasn't. Some people on the net looked into it more and found
that it was a group from New Jersey or something like that. It could be
that Warp records encouraged record stores to file them under Aphex Twin
so that it would sell better.
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Mark Krenz
Bloomington Linux Users Group
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