Mamoru samuragoch biography definition
Mamoru samuragoch biography definition
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The composer who was once dubbed ‘Japan’s Beethoven’ – and how it was all outed as a fraud
14 October 2021, 17:37
The extraordinary story of classical music’s greatest fraudster, and how he was found out.
Among the biggest scams in history is this incredible story of a deaf composer, once dubbed ‘Japan’s Beethoven’, who was unmasked as a fraud in the Spring of 2014.
Mamoru Samuragochi, who shot to fame in the mid-1990s, confessed to having hired someone else to write his most famous music for almost 20 years.
Samuragochi had claimed to be the composer behind video games such as Resident Evil, as well as his Symphony No.
1 (Hiroshima), a tribute to those killed in the 1945 bombing of the city.
The real composer behind these works was eventually revealed to be Takashi Niigaki, a music professor at a Tokyo college. Here’s his story, and how Samuragochi duped the world...
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