Is Andrew Lloyd Webber a Plagiarist
I look at some pieces that sound very similar to ones already composed. It is quite a controversy because the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen had some harsh words: There are two sorts of stealing (in music) taking something and doing nothing with it, or going to work on what you ve stolen. The first is plagiarism. Andrew Lloyd Webber has yet to think up a single note; in fact, the poor guy s never invented one note by himself. That s rather poor Furthermore, Kit and the Widow wrote a humorous tune calle
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