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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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In article <69mn4jppd29is4apku7o4njitkt5cpkhm6@4ax.com>,
Chris Duck  <chrisduck@coldmail.com> wrote:
>Thanks!
>
>On Mon, 20 May 2024 17:22:22 -0400, William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>technovelist wrote:
>>> Anyone have a reference for a short story in which a famous composer
>is "brought back from the dead"
>>> by giving a completely nonmusical person a "personality transplant"
>(my term, I'm not sure what it
>>> was called in the story)? The twist is that the "revived composer"
>realizes just before they take
>>> away the personality transplant is that he is the critics' version of
>the composer, a complete hack
>>> with no actual original ability.
>>> 
>>> I read this in a short story collection. It might be James Blish or
>Arthur C. Clarke but I haven't
>>> seen any titles that ring a bell in their bibliographies.
>>
>>It is "A work of art" by James Blish.  The composer was Richard Strauss.
>>
>>Robert Mills edited an anthology in which authors were invited to submit 
>>their best stories.  This was Blish's choice.
>>
>>William Hyde
>>

That's interesting, in that it certainly doesn't sound as good as say,
"Surface Tensin".
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