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🔗X. J. Scott <xjscott@...>

8/3/2001 10:57:31 AM

[JdL asked regarding the Toccata & Fugue:]

> Is there some doubt that he wrote it, BTW?

Well... I think he wrote it myself but some academic
dude did some kind of analysis where he claimed it
wasn't really in the proper style or what have you and
tried to attribute it to a pal of JSB's or some such.
bviously trying to make a name for himself by being
controversial. Along with the claims that the works of
Shakespeare were by someone else, etc. Then for a while
it became fashionable to claim that JSB didn't really
write it among all the fashionable young music
theorists etc.

I introduced it like that so that I wouldn't get the
silly "but he didn't really write it, you should read
so and so's article that proves he didn't" claims from
the PhD types.

But let me leap frog all the cranks out there:

TH. Jefferson did not write the Declaration of
Independence. It was Voltaire.

Leo Tolstoy did not write War and Peace. It was
Johannes Kepler. He wrote it in 1628 and Tolstoy
just changed the names and details around. Why,
I even have a first edition of the Latin!

Herman Melville did not write Moby Dick. It was a seven
year old boy living in Helsinki who did it, writing
down an old traditional Finnish fishing fable his
great-uncle told him.

Harry Partch was no even a composer! He stole the
scores and instruments from a Pacific Islander hobo
named Franston Pillsbody. All those pieces have been
performed in the Solomon islands for centuries.

Julius Caesar never lived. The entire history of the
'so-called' Roman Republic and Empire are all an
elaborate hoax. Italy is not even a country, actually!
Surprising but true!

- Jeff