Van Den Budenmayer? Who’s He?

I found an interesting interview with Zbigniew Preisner about Van Den Budenmayer.

“Many people ask me about him. When Kieslowski shot the movie, he
originally wanted to use some of Mahler’s music, but this proved too
expensive to licence. He asked me to compose something original in
Mahler’s style, and we were looking for the name of a composer -
something different, something to be taken seriously as ‘proper’ music.
Both Kieslowski and I liked Holland, and the name Van den Budenmayer
looks as if it comes out of Holland, so we chose that. Afterwards, we
got thousands of questions about Van den Budenmayer. We gave him my
birth date but 20 years earlier and he even started appearing in music
encyclopaedias! At one point, someone wanted to take me to court
accusing me of stealing his music! Nowadays, if I write bad music, I
accredit it to him!”

I thought that was kind of amusing! don’t you?