Ilayaraja meets Chopin. Or is it so?

From left to right: Chopin,Ilayaraja

Note: This is not a post about music
Humans are fallible!
To err is Human.

I was scrolling my Facebook feed casually when i happened to see a video's thumbnail. The thumbnail was interesting, some nerd had programmed a "bot's arm" which could play a keyboard!
Machine playing Machine!

Seemed Intriguing. Thought it was a novel idea to have a look at.

                            Semantic Displacement And Misplacement
            
           Ernesto cortazar Jr was 13 when he lost both of his parents in a horrible auto accident. 
           Ernesto cortazar senior was an accomplished composer,lyricist,screenplay writer and went on to a direct a film.
           Cortazar jr had travelled many european countries and played in prestigious halls in front of famous leaders like Nikita kruschev and Carlos Menem
           Cortazar jr has attained a pop cult status with many downloads and cd's sold in many countries.
           Cortazar jr returned to his country and died in 2004, he is survived by his sons cortazar III and Edgar Cortazar.
           Out of many of his film scores and albums, one album is "Just For You". This album "had" a piece called "Beethoven's silence". [Ernesto Cortazar's Biography](https://ernestocortazar.net/index.php/biography)

  Perhaps the "Netizens" while listening must have misread the title as beethoven's work or they had a trouble with the mexican name or that they forgot to see the apostrophe after the mexican's name. 
  whatever it was,
  Cortazar the composer became Cortazar the performer! 
  Later people found the mexican name too hard to remember, after all he is not the composer, is it worth to remember?
  So It's known as beethoven's silence without any relation to Cortazar.

Actually fractions of seconds before noticing the thumbnail and thinking all these, I had seen the page's name and it's description for the post.
The post said "Not only the heart,but also machine loves Ilayaraja's About Ilayaraja A Composition music ( It was in tamil, but this is what it conveyed)
I had started to scroll further before the thumbnail caught my attention and ensuing thoughts,actions and events that followed.
So, eagerly I started watching the video. Not even 10 seconds had gone past I understood this is not Ilayaraja musical piece by any stretch of imaginination,
but the music sounded strangely familiar.

                                        Thoughts

             Had he composed a piece this classical that which i cannot associate with him?
             May be Ilayaraja had had inspiration like he had when composing Idhayam Poguthe song from Schubert's unfinshed symphony. 
             Or like when he composed entha poovilum inspired from Antonio Ruiz Pipo's cancione Y danza.
             Or was it an improvisation by the creator of the video, of Ilayaraja's music. 
             In all cases it shouldn't have sounded this familiar, atleast in the fashion it did.

The music had strains of classical music in it.
But it was not from classical period or romantic or early half of the 20th century as far as i knew.

                                 Inspiration And Fame

            Marriage d'amour aka Love Marriage is a piece of piano music, composed by Paul de Senneville in 1978. [Paul De Senneville]( https://web.archive.org/web/20130709152321/http://www.clayderman.co.uk/the_delphine_team.htm)
            Later it was played by Richard Clayderman for his album "Lettre A Ma Mere" and became a massive hit.
            With that started a long years of collaboration between the two.  
            Later, came a george davidson with variation of this piece for his album "My Heart Will Go On". [George davidson's version(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcUE8URrGb4)
            
Now, even if by any stretch of reason the above piece could have been accredited 'wrongly' to any of the above 3 guys and we could have taken with a grain of salt.
But what followed?

But still familiar?
By now, i have atleast quite sure where it was coming from
This should be some famous piano piece that floats in youtube. The later half of 20th century and the modern pop
piano pieces!

I commented there asking whether they could say in which film or album this Ilayaraja's piece belonged to.

Somehow i understood they won't or can't reply, so i went to youtube and searched for "Beethoven's Silencio".
Sounded differently,
It wasn't Ernesto cortazar's "Beethoven's silence"!. The youtube had recommendations similar to the video.

                       Miscrediting the miscredited in the miscrediting game.

              Listener 1 :  Oh, what a beautiful piece of music, I am weeping. Thank you Chopin!
              Listener 2 :  Oh, what a sublime musical piece! I am crying for Chopin and et al!
         
              Now, even if by any stretch of reason the above piece could have been accredited 'wrongly' to any of the above 3 guys and we could have taken with a grain of salt.
              But what followed was unexpected.

              The uploader wanted the USP, brought the great Polish.
              And there it lies as one of the most famous Chopin waltzes. [Chopin's Waltz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFJ7kDva7JE)

              As if this was not enough, there comes another genius into this miscrediting game, thanks to the admin of the page we have Ilayaraja's whatever. [Bot's Playing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8D0XeyqNxw)

Now, I don't want to indicate that mistakes won't happen. More than deliberate action by the admin, it was a mistake due to overwhelming cult worship. Empathy!
In this age of "excess" information it's tough to be organized.
I have myself plenty of times wrongly shared stuffs and have apologized, removed. Only in exceptional case i had kept it, when i thought it didn't bring any disgrace to the original.

But here is the problem.
I had commented there with the link for the original piece, which the bot was playing. I was surprised to find that though they had liked my comment ( which i thought was acknowledgement of my comment)
there wasn't any further action by the admin. I didn't expect them to remove the video, music is not geographically bound, so it can be listened by all.
I didn't expect apology too. That would be seem too much.
At the very least they should have edited the description for the post.
Nothing! It is still there. The funnier part is the raining praises about ilayaraja's music, very poetically too or appreciating the admin's post and acknowledging the description.
I don't blame the users, my critique is on the admin.
It's sad that a person who fights for copyright so hard, as to be victim of the same.

PS: Did you read that I searched for "Beethoven's silencio"?

Thank you for reading!

Endnotes:

Bisson. "Frederick Chopin"

Venket Ram.G "Ilayaraja"

https://www.ernestocortazar.net/index.php/biography

https://web.archive.org/web/20130709152321/http://www.clayderman.co.uk/the_delphine_team.htm

http://www.clayderman.co.uk/

http://georgedavidson.com/music-listen.php

"Ernesto cortazar's Beethoven's silence"

"Bot's Playing"

"Schubert's Unfinished Symphony Allegro in Ilayaraja musical show"