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

[jschmitz at qis.net]

Quoting Joe J <yslamj at hotmail.com>:

> 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.

I searched rec.arts.sf.* on Google Groups.  It appears the story may be
_Unaccompanied Sonata_ by Orson Scott Card.

<http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_frm/thread/535044bf99d0c99f/1ba821451e6f3dfb?lnk=st&q=%22short+story%22+composer+group%3Arec.arts.sf.*&rnum=1&hl=en#1ba821451e6f3dfb>

[shorter link:  http://tinyurl.com/yk8c69]

"According to the isfdb,  Unaccompanied Sonata  by 
Orson Scott Card first appeared in  Omni, March 1979."

-JoAnne