2007-02-19

Masterpiece or Fakes: the Joyce Hatto Scandal

Very interesting article on copyright infringement and outright fakery/stealing in the classical music sphere! It appears this couple edited a huge catalogue of a female virtuosa, based on other pianists' recordings... or how to get caught when you underestimate sound engineers...

Gramophone - News - The world's best classical music magazine: "Masterpieces Or Fakes? The Joyce Hatto Scandal - February 15 2007

It was already one of the strangest stories the classical music world had
witnessed. But the discovery of the late English pianist Joyce Hatto as the
greatest instrumentalist almost nobody had heard of, appears to have taken a
bizarre, even potentially sinister turn. "