Mamoru Samuragochi, known as the Japanese Beethoven, is facing a great deal of shame after confessing that he paid another composer to create many of his most iconic works.
Samurogochi rose to prominence in the mid-1990s with compositions that provided the sonic landscape for certain video games like Resident Evil.
His degenerative condition--which would eventually cause his hearing to go completely--gave him the "Japan's Beethoven" moniker. Alas, though, Mamoru's ears are what led him to purchase the works clad in fraud.
If that doesn't get your gut chuckling, here's how Samuragochi described himself in interviews:
"I listen to myself. If you trust your inner sense of sound, you create something that is truer," he said in an interview with TIME magazine in 2001.
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