Master of plagiarism

 

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Master of plagiarism

 

 

 

"The Fraud", "The Thief"

 

 

 

It is the nickname of one of the famous composers of Western music history.

 

This composer received the most criticism for plagiarism among composers in the history of Western music.

 

In fact, it is known that he plagiarized a lot.

 

 

 

 

Surprisingly, the composer also has another nickname, "Mother of Music."

 

Can you guess who it is now?

 

 

 

Right. He is Georg Friedrich Handel (1685–1759) from the Baroque period.

 

 

 

Handel, not to mention plagiarism, but he takes parts of other people's work and writes songs together.

 

He was notorious for publishing other people's works under his own name.

 

And he was so naughty and confident for a plagiarist.

 

He even said that "But those idiots don't even know what to do with a good melody."

 

 

 

 

Handel's opera "Serse" is an opera by copying work Giovanni Bononcini’s, and opera 'Muzio Scevola' was composed by copying Filippo Amadei and Bononcini's songs.

 

In addition, Handel's "Israel in Egypt Oratoriot" is known to have plagiarized more than 15 out of 30 movements.

 

 

 

 

It seems natural that such a shameless person should be morally reprehensible.

 

However, the concept of plagiarism at that time was a little different from now.

 

 

 

 

Today's concept of copyright has been around since the Romantic period.

 

There was a concept similar to copyright in Handel's time, but it was not as strong as it is now.

 

 

 

 

And in the Baroque era, I had to compose every week.

 

So composers also plagiarized to handle the huge workload.

 

And sometimes they used the popular verses of the time to focus their attention on music.

 

 

 

 

And in Handel's time, there were people who thought that "great imitation" was more valuable than creation.

 

One of them is Johann Mattheson, Handel's friend and victim of plagiarism.

Mattheson said that

 

 

 

 

"Stealing melody does no harm to the original composer.

 

Rather, it's a great honor for a famous composer to discover my ideas and use them as the basis for his music.

 

If the original music is capital, the other composer developed the idea is the interest that borrowed and paid back the money."

 

 

 

 

Musicologist Alfred Einstein also said this.

 

"Handel is the one who created something through stealing.

 

He's a great conqueror who not only takes someone else's property, but he makes a profit from it.

 

Even if he was literally copying it, the copy became his property through a new context.

 

If you go through Handel's hand, the stone becomes gold."

 

 

 

 

So in Handel's time, plagiarism was done openly.

 

So why, was Handel the only one to receive a lot of criticism?

 

I think it was because of his rude attitude and he made a lot of money with the music he plagiarized.

 

 

 

Today, I'm going to post Sarabande Grave in D Minor by Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629-1691) and Handel's Sarabande.

 

 

It is easy to guess who plagiarized whose song, considering that d'Anglebert was 60 years ahead of Handel.

 

Please enjoy it.

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-qHtYfktiQ