[PW] Re: looking for a short sci fi story

[GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido]

Hi Joe,
I think this is Orson Scott Card's Unaccompanied Sonata.

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The honorable Joe J noted on 4 Dec 2006 thusly:

> Hi everyone.
> I'v been looking for a short sci fi story for the longest
> time and i cant find it - (a friend suggested to ask you.) I
> don't have alot of information but what I do have is... It's
> about a music composer who was aloud to compose only his
> original music (and not to hear other music - he was put in
> some kind of cottage in a forest) one day he snuk out and
> listened to anothers music, and when he composed, his music
> was influenced from the music he heard. He was punished not
> to compose again but of course he had to. So he did it in
> different ways and when "they" found out "they" cut his hand
> off. so he started composing for a choire through his voice
> and "they" found out and took his voice and he had such a
> tuff time that he died at the end - i think. anyway I think
> the story is in an Anthologie for best short stories but i'm
> clueless and I would really love to get help. thank you so
> much. Joe
> 
>


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