Cathy Berberian was credited with very little at the level of authorship -- only as performer, and never as co-composer, which she must have been in such works as "Visage." History, I think, will correct that.
I doubt it. Not unless history is also prepared to grant co-composer credit to an awful lot of violinists for an awful lot of violin concertos.
As with that copyright case which was discussed on this list a week or so ago, the key question is (or should be) whether the work(s) in question show distinctive stylistic touches not to be found in other works by the composer-of-record, and it seems to me that the answer here is most emphatically "no."
And after all, the credit that history has already granted Berberian for her performances is itself hardly to be sneezed at.
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Andrew Stiller
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